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Re: Problems installing on new iBook dual USB



> > Software Restore CD have HD Setup. What does Apple use these days to
> > partition drives? I want to Dual boot Mac OS and Linux and thought it
> > would be better to create the new Mac OS partitions with an Apple
> > tool.
>
> http://www.cfcl.com/~eryk/linux/pdisk/ is pretty much the same as the
> 'mac-fdisk' built into the debian installer. There's no better partition
> editor for the mac, on any OS.

Not quite correct, Eryk's version is 0.8 while mac-fdisk is based on 0.4.
Not sure what the differences are (other than he probably corrected the
bug resulting in miscalculated device sizes a lot sooner).

	Michael



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