Re: Pre iBook information
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:49:13 +0000
Glyn Tebbutt <d3c3it-linux@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone
> Im currently looking into getting an iBook, i wont go into the reasons
> here but i do have some questions that i wonder if anyone could answer
> for me. I intend to dual boot debian and mac osx but for this to
> really work i need to be able to share files between the 2 os's on the
> same machine, so in theroy a shared partition. Now i read somewhere
> that fat32 or an apple filesystem can be read between the 2 os's, is
> this true? Also ive read to setup linux you must first create the
> partitions during the mac setup, so would i setup 3partitions?
>
> 10gb = mac osx
> 10gb = linux
> 40gb = shared
>
> This is a rough idea for a 60gb drive, so would this work??
This should work, but I would add a 4th partition - a swap partition for
Linux.
If the OS X installer will let you partition the drive, I would
definitely do it then as it will make things easier. I do not know that
it is required, though.
HTH,
Jacob
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