Re: Installing gentoo on a PowerBook 17 dual boot

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:19:07PM -0500, Polashek, Matthew wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>  
> 
> I am exploring the idea of installing gentoo on my PowerBook in dual
> boot fashion.  Is there a way to install without uninstalling my current
> OSX distro?  I think the trick would be to create new partitions out of
> the existing unused space in my current OSX partitions.  Anyone done
> anything like this?
> 
>  
> 

Hi, 

I guess most of us did reinstall MacOS-X (with a smaller partition)
or erase it. 

However there are some patches to parted to resize hfs+
partitions : 
check http://xilun.nerim.net/Projet/Parted/parted-1.6.19-hfs-16.tar.bz2
Try to contact [email protected] before any attempt and 
DO backups (as it is risky). 

Installation on an external firewire disk might be safer. 
It's a bit tricky but I did it and run Gentoo without problems. 
Search in the forums and ring me a bell if you don't manage 
to get it working. 

Regards, 

SL/

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