Ubuntu PPC Linux on a nude HDD?

[jafar]

Will Ubuntu work ok on an Imac with a bare HDD? During a failed Mandrake
installation I wiped all the partitions and created a new partition table
and bootstrap partition along with / and /home linux partitions.
The reason I'm asking is that some people have mentioned that you may need
a small OS9 partition on disk to boot from using bootx, yaboot etc.. Will
this work on a MacOS free disk?

[Jack Malmostoso]

Post by jafar
Will
this work on a MacOS free disk?

Ubuntu will take care of everything. Just choose the automatic
partitioning.

[Michel Klijmij]

Post by jafar
Will Ubuntu work ok on an Imac with a bare HDD? During a failed Mandrake
installation I wiped all the partitions and created a new partition table
and bootstrap partition along with / and /home linux partitions.
The reason I'm asking is that some people have mentioned that you may need
a small OS9 partition on disk to boot from using bootx, yaboot etc.. Will
this work on a MacOS free disk?

If it's a NewWorld machine, it doesn't need OS9 for BootX. All that is
needed apart from the common Linux partitions is an Apple Bootstrap
partition. The Ubuntu Installer should create that if you choose automatic
partitioning.

[jafar]

Post by Michel Klijmij
If it's a NewWorld machine, it doesn't need OS9 for BootX. All that is
needed apart from the common Linux partitions is an Apple Bootstrap
partition. The Ubuntu Installer should create that if you choose automatic
partitioning.

It appears to be a newworld machine. Ubuntu works perfectly! :)
Yah Boo Sucks to Mandrake ;)

[Keith Keller]

Post by Michel Klijmij
If it's a NewWorld machine, it doesn't need OS9 for BootX. All that is
needed apart from the common Linux partitions is an Apple Bootstrap
partition. The Ubuntu Installer should create that if you choose automatic
partitioning.

There are actually two different BootX's which, IIRC, are more or less
completely different. One, a MacOS Classic extension, would allow a
machine to boot a non-MacOS *after* starting the pre-X MacOS boot
process. AFAIK, this extension was never an Apple product. The new
BootX is made by Apple and comes with OS X, but I believe (and I hope
someone will correct if I'm wrong) that it only boots OS X. (That's not
really a big deal, since OpenFirmware boots other operating systems, and
on NewWorld boxes OF should be the preferred method for booting linux.)

--keith