Ubuntu with Mac OSX Tiger

[Luis Mondesi]

On 4/30/07, Bob Salsburg <infores at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> Here's what I have:
>
> MacOSX  10.4 server with System partition about 60 gb and a files
> partition about 60 gb. Both are Apple_HFS Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
>
> Here's what I want to do:
>
> Install Ubuntu 7.04 as dual boot with the Tiger server while keeping
> the almost 40 gb of files in place and possibly resize the system
> partition giving some space back to the files partition. I read
> somewhere that journaling would need to be turned off.
>
> Will there be a 7.04 server release?
>
> Please advise how I might best accomplish this task.
>
> Bob
>
> BTW. Each ISO I have downloaded has been reported by Didk Utility to be
> bad. Toast, however, happily opens them and makes the CD.



I'd never (EVER) trust any utility to resize my partitions without having
various copies of my data safely out of my system. Playing with partitioning
(and worse, resizing) is dangerous and very destructive.

OS X is particularly sensitive to partitions. So I would go the safe route
and:

1. backup
2. partition the drive properly (installing OS X from the  install media)
3. then install ubuntu the right way

Make sure that ubuntu doesn't mount you HFS+ formatted drive afterwards,
unless you turn off Journaling in your main partition (I  would not
recommend this. I'd rather make  a smaller non-journal partition that can be
used between ubuntu and OS X. But that's just me being paranoid with my
most important stuff on my system: data).

Now about the ISOs, this is the reason they publish the checksum files every
where along with the ISOs themselves. Make sure that the md5sums (or
sha1sums) matches the ISOs you downloaded before burning them... It can safe
you a few bucks in bad disks... Perhaps you can use those same disks to
actually backup your data.

Regards,

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Luis Mondesi
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