On 8/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Basset</b> <<a href="mailto:mchiganfan32@gmail.com">mchiganfan32@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I believe that i must have fried the mac os, but when i put the mac os install cd in, i can get as far as where is tells me to choose a place to put the operating system, and it gives me no options on where to do this. i assume it is because of how i partitioned the hard drive when i put the ubuntu os on it. but i am unaware of how to repartition a hard drive in the ubuntu os. or how i should go about it. <br>thanks,<br>matt</blockquote><div><br>If I remember correctly, with Mac you have to "initialize" the disk first if there are no valid partitions (i.e. wipe the partition table).  If this is the case, it may very well delete your Ubuntu partition and put you back at a square one brick. <br><br>SigmaX<br></div></div><br>-- <br>My home page:  <a href="http://www.SigmaX.org">http://www.SigmaX.org</a><br><br>"ttocs laeno cire oshkosh b'gosh fyedernoggersnodden nicht stein bon probiscus"<br><br> "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school"<br>              -- Albert Einstein