On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:22:47PM -0000, Ian Rutson wrote: > I have been given a Beige Mac G3/233/96Mb/4Gb > > I would like to use Linux and Mac OS dual boot on it. > > I have installed Debian Woody on a 2nd 200Mb hard drive to check everything > is Ok and it works well. But I would like to give Linux some more space. > > Is there any way to split the 4Gb main drive in half and allocate 2gb to Mac > OS and 2 gb to Linux? > > I do not have the MAC OS 8.1 system disk. I have borrowed a copy of 9.1 but > I can't persuade it to boot. I have tried holding down 'c' and selecting > the CDROM as the startup disk. > > Are there any non destructive partitioners for Mac like Partition Magic for > PC?
Yes, and that's about your only option if you can't back up what's there. (The tools will not guarantee success either, you _should_ have a backup in any case). Hard Disk Toolkit will shrink the partition. -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it." -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
