I have already posted this on some yellowdog mailling lists. My issue is just as applicable to fedora ppc so trying here as well.
I have a blue and white 400Mhz G3 with 1 20gb Western Digital HD and 1 Maxtor 300gb HD. I am running the 20gb drive as the boot drive with MacOSX Tiger. Without any patches the 300gb drive is seen as a 137gb drive -- With Intech's ATA HD patch -- I can set multiple 137gb partitions and use almost the entire 300gb. I would like to set this machine up dual boot -- MacOSX and Fedora ppc linux. However with both Fedora Core 4 and Fedora Core 5 ppc installers -- I can boot the machine just fine and run the installer to the partitioning stage -- but it never actually writes any linux packages to the HD at all the installer locks up when I try to write partitions to either drive ... I could get an ATA controller card for this machine but thus far those run between $79-$199 from what I have seen. Does anyone know of a patch that will make the Fedora ppc installer work properly or of an ATA controller card for $50 or less that would work for this machine??
I have also heard that either Fedora Core 5 or 6 had some software built in that would circumvent the 137gb partition limit -- is this true??
Thanks for your help.
James Rooker