Creating partitions on Compact Flash device

[odyssey2001]

Hi all,

 

I replaced my Mac Mini's internal hard drive with a 4GB compact flash card using a CF-to-SATA adapter. I am not able to create any partitions on this drive as the Mac OS X installer complains about the volume being too small to create a partition.

 

I was able to install Ubuntu linux on the drive, but unfortunately I wasn't able too boot it. It just doesn't appear in the boot menu on startup.

 

Does anyone know how to get a Linux system running on a 4GB drive?

 

Thanks in advance,

Odyssey