(MoC) Posted December 30, 2006 Share Posted December 30, 2006 I have a working bootable copy of iPartition and it wont resize my partition. It resizes about 3 megs and thats it. Does anyone know why this is happening? I just cant wait to install Slackintosh Linux. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 *Bump* Anyone?!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265092 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloutmacstoday Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 use boot camp, u can change the type of partition after ur done partitioning it Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265187 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 dude, boot camp is intel only! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 Grab a copy of this month's MacAddict, which has a wonderful "how to install Ubuntu Linux" article. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265226 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 yeah, that worked on my grannys imac Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkura Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 I have a big feeling that article is going to have him wipe the drive... (correct me if I'm wrong.) I'm guessing he doesn't want that, hence usage of iPartition. What exactly do you mean by "it resizes 3 megs?" Like it will leave you with a 3 meg partition and another partition with everything else? Or...? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265277 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 No, when I slide that pie chart thing, it only goes a little bit. Usually a mac has 128.00 MB left as free space so when I slide it to the maximum it only goes until the free space says 872 MB. But I have 40 GB left on my HFS partition and I'd like to give about 10-15 GB to Slackintosh (Slacware PPC). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloutmacstoday Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 oh yeah Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 What? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkura Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition-faq.php Specifically - 12. According to Finder, I've got 70GB of free space on my disk, but iPartition will only let me make a new partition 3MB in size, and won’t let me make it any larger. Finder displays the amount of free space within a partition. In iPartition, “Free Space” refers to the amount of space on your disk that is not currently within any partition. Before you can create a larger partition, you will need to shrink one or more of your existing partitions to make space. iPartition can’t do this for you, because there is no way for it to know which of your existing partitions you wish to shrink. Any luck there? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloutmacstoday Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 yeah, ipartition should work or drive genius Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted December 31, 2006 Author Share Posted December 31, 2006 I have iPartition. It just wont work Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265610 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloutmacstoday Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 disk genius? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265631 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soündless Posted December 31, 2006 Share Posted December 31, 2006 i partition is probably designed for x86 architecture, you have a ppc, that is why i partition isnt working Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265636 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 It does resize, but little. Like a meg or 2. Also, its a universal application. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265747 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alloutmacstoday Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 oh yeah. i dunno what else you could do Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 Hopefully not anything that requires me to stay with my eyes in a terminal all day.... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265799 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkura Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 (edited) Well, are you willing to wipe the drive? If yes, fdisk is your friend. EDIT - completely unrelated, I see a smiley that says "censored" across it. I'm guessing that it is covering an obscenity, where do I turn that off? (I can't find it...) Edited January 1, 2007 by Valkura Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265877 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 You dont. The code for the smiley is :censored2: Example: That looks like {censored}. See, if you want you can insert the smiley and if you dont you dont Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-265908 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkura Posted January 1, 2007 Share Posted January 1, 2007 AHA! I've never seen that before. Any further luck with getting iPartition to work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-266228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted January 1, 2007 Author Share Posted January 1, 2007 No, I just dont want to wipe my Tiger install. I'll just install KDE on OSX. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/37227-linux-on-an-ibook-g4-help/#findComment-266320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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