Hello Steven, On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:21:23 -0700 Steven Ringwald <SRingwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 18:23 -0700, Matt Beals wrote: > > > I'd like to install FC5 on my Apple PowerBook G4. I would prefer to > > not have to reformat and partition my hard drive to do this. Has > > anyone tried this? What do you think? > > > It is a great idea, actually. I did this exact thing on my MacMini > (which I believe is also a G4). What I ended up doing is buying a > firewire drive, using DiskTool (I believe) to create a backup of my > current system volume, change the boot device to be the firewire drive, > reboot (now off of Firewire rather than the internal hard-drive), > repartition the internal drive into two partitions (with the first > being for MacOS and the rest being for Linux), and then copied the > firewire partition back, remarked the internal drive's MacOS partition > as the boot boot-drive, and voila! internal drive resized. > > Then I just followed the directions in the FC5 Anaconda installer, > making sure that I didn't blow away the MacOS partition. > > If anything goes wrong, you can always plug that firewire drive back in, > press Option-F (I think that is the combo) while booting, and it will > boot off firewire instead of the internal device. > > Hope this helps. It was off the top of my head. I can point you to more > detailed directions, if you need. Why not using bootcamp for this? There have been experiences reported here, but you can also look here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1085375#post1085375 Regards, -- wwp
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