Re: Installing Etch without re-installing Tiger.
Yes. You can install Debian on a second disk or a partition on the same
disk behind the OS X partition.
The parted in Etch installation CD should work well with shrinking the
hfs+ parition of OS X. Remember to disable journaling of the hfs+ file
sytem before shrinking.
I made several Debian Etch ppc installations by shrinking the OS X
partition on some G4 and G5 machines. The latest mol supports booting
Tiger in Etch, which gives me the opportunity to run both OS without
dual booting. Actually I have used mol on G4 to run several OS X
instances on one server so that developers can test their stuffs in a
virtual server environmnet.
I have not tested the latest mol on G5 yet. If anybody knows the recent
status of mol on G5, please let me know. Also I am interested in smart
mol usage in real life environment, but so far have not find a forum or
wiki to discuss that yet.
Jin
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:17 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There are some howtos around, saying that debian must be installed on
a
> partition which is located before osX. I am wondering if it still
true,
> because this roughly means that osX has to be re-installed, and I have
> no time to do this (going in a separate office to get many boxes and
> software keys, installing proprietary software from CDs, downloading
the
> updates on the net, rebooting, ...)
>
> On the other hands, I read some recent discussions in Ubuntu forums
> which talk about resizing and dual-booting. This sounds more doable.
>
> Can I just resize the hfs+ partition on my drive, and install Etch
> whereever partman left me some free space ?
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> --
> Charles Plessy
> http://charles.plessy.org
> Wako, Saitama, Japan
>
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