Greetings - I would like to install debian testing in my 12" powerbook, configured to dual boot os x and debian and without blowing away my existing os x installation. (yes, I have my files backed up but I'd rather not reinstall everything if possible.) This system appears to have only two partitions a 32 KB Apple_Bootstrap partition and the rest as an HFS+ partition. I successfully resized the HFS+ partition using the commercial iPartition, to make room for linux but now I see that the existing bootstrap partition is not big enough. I booted the debian net installer from CD and went to the partitioning step. The summary tells me I have the following partitions:
32.3 KB 134.2 MB FREE SPACE 47.7 GB hfs+ Macintosh HD 32.2 GB FREE SPACE
the 32.2 KB partition should be the existing bootstrap but is not being reported as such by the installer. There is 134 MB of free space reported between the partitions - can I simply expand the bootstrap partition into this space?
the installer has a 'use largest continuous free space' option but the documentation dosen't really say what it will do to the bootstrap partition if I use this option. Any suggestions on how to proceed are appreciated. Cheers Mike
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