Minimum number of partitions needed to boot only Fedora PPC and machine purchase questions.

[J.B. Nicholson-Owens]

Thanks for the responses.

Colin Charles wrote:
> I guess. Its probably an iBook 2 at the very least right? 600MHz or so

I can't speak to the "2" in "iBook 2" (I don't know what that "2" refers to), I 
figure it would be around 800MHz.  I just didn't want to spend a lot on an 
experiment, but I wanted to end up with a machine I could realistically use to 
do work once in a while.  I'd like to record audio with it (via my Griffin 
iMic), browse the web, and maybe watch a DVD.

> Yup! Airport works too :)

Sounds interesting.  If I inadvertently get an Airport Extreme card, could I 
just find an Airport card somewhere and plug it in the same cable (underneath 
the iBook keyboard, if I recall from the last time I took an iBook apart)?

> Yup. You can have just ext3 based partitions and get rid of all traces
> of HFS/HFS+ if you so please

This would be ideal because I'll probably never remember special partitions 
when I go to install.  However, I just found contradictory advice on 
http://dahlbeck.blogspot.com/2004/12/fedora-ppc-on-imac.html which says that 
the Apple Boot partition must be the first partition.  This is not a 
showstopper issue, it's just a 1MB partition that poses a minor install-time 
hassle if I don't get it right.

Thanks again.