Re: about partitioning the os x hd
On 8/18/07, brian <cymraegish@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Mauro <lavaramano@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/17/07, Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
> > wrote:
> > > On Aug 17 2007, Mauro wrote:
> > > > Im sorry if this is not the right place to ask,
> > but i wonder if
> > > > there's a way to resize the partition with the
> > mac os x, so i can
> > > > install a debian ppc along.
>
> There are two other ways I know to do this.
>
> a) get the macos program called bootcd and burn
> yourself a macos restore. you never know when
> macos cd gets lost/scratch whatever besides there
> are all those tedious updates and such.
>
> b) get yourself a backup drive. use the apple disk
> utility to back up "restore to/from". then boot off
> your backup drive and reformat and then restore the
> backup.
>
> although tedious perhaps these methods also give
> you some insurance policy. also in b you can use
> a second partition to back up debian also.
>
> c) you can also install debian on 2nd partition
> of your external drive and then copy it later, there
> is option in the installer to copy-install.
>
Thanks Brian and Rogerio for the replies.
I finally decided to remove the macos x (which is a nice OS, but...
most programs for this OS are not for free, like any gnu/linux distro
like Debian :P)
I did it yesterday and everything worked like a charm, except for
sound but i did modprobe snd-powermac, wrote it down on
/etc/modprobe.conf and rebooted. that was all.
I just had a little problem, when it did a "aptitude dist-upgrade" the
aptitude removed most of the gnome programs :|, anyway im reinstalling
it from the cd, so i have no problems so far.
Thanks
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