Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:53:08 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: iBook G4: shrink OSX to make room for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20111116005308.e47ed734.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Hello, I've tried to get an answer to this question on Mac forums (and other places)without success. Perhaps someone reading this mailing list knows the answer? I got myself an iBook (used) for cheap, and I want to install FreeBSD on it. But I also want to keep a small partition with OS X on it. The machine cam with OS X 10.4.11 installed on the hard drive, but didn't come with install media. So I thought, I'll just shrink the OS X partition (currently there is only one partition on the hard drive) to make room. Well, it turns out that the diskutil method (from OS X) doesn't work on PPC Macs: $sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s3 limits Error obtaining resizing information Resizing encountered error Could not modify partition map (-9986) on disk disk0s3 Macintosh HD Note: this was done with OS X booted off an external drive (firewire) And gparted seems to be only for x86-compatible machines... Does anyone know a way to shrink a partition on a PPC Mac? -- Torfinnhome | help
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