Yes. You can install Debian on a second disk or a partition on the same disk behind the OS X partition.
The parted in Etch installation CD should work well with shrinking the hfs+ parition of OS X. Remember to disable journaling of the hfs+ file sytem before shrinking. I made several Debian Etch ppc installations by shrinking the OS X partition on some G4 and G5 machines. The latest mol supports booting Tiger in Etch, which gives me the opportunity to run both OS without dual booting. Actually I have used mol on G4 to run several OS X instances on one server so that developers can test their stuffs in a virtual server environmnet. I have not tested the latest mol on G5 yet. If anybody knows the recent status of mol on G5, please let me know. Also I am interested in smart mol usage in real life environment, but so far have not find a forum or wiki to discuss that yet. Jin On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 15:17 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi all, > > There are some howtos around, saying that debian must be installed on a > partition which is located before osX. I am wondering if it still true, > because this roughly means that osX has to be re-installed, and I have > no time to do this (going in a separate office to get many boxes and > software keys, installing proprietary software from CDs, downloading the > updates on the net, rebooting, ...) > > On the other hands, I read some recent discussions in Ubuntu forums > which talk about resizing and dual-booting. This sounds more doable. > > Can I just resize the hfs+ partition on my drive, and install Etch > whereever partman left me some free space ? > > Have a nice day, > > -- > Charles Plessy > http://charles.plessy.org > Wako, Saitama, Japan > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
