Hi, I am about to install debian on my g4 (alu) powerbook. I would like to have a dual boot system and if possible, preserve my current OS X installation. Two questions:
1. is it OK for debian and OS X if I just shrink the OS X partition using partman, and put an ext3 filesystem partition after it? Or should I put it before, etc, or the whole thing is not relevant? 2. before using partman, I would like to make a backup of the whole disk. What tools do you suggest for that? I can now boot the sarge netinstall cd (current, daily release) and mount partitions on my firewire/usb2 OWC 250 gb drive. I thought of making a backup into a file on one of the partitions, using the tools on the sarge install disk. Is this feasible? What tools should I use? I thought of dd, but I don't know how could I make it compare the data it has written with the disk, and I don't know which device name to use for the whole disk (not just a partition). If things don't work out, will I be able to restore from this? Please share suggestions & ideas, Tamas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
