Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:34:20 -0500 From: Chris Carr <carrch@mac.com> To: "freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: iBook G4: shrink OSX to make room for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <8EC8F38F-B61A-4BCD-BE4D-8D2F7B34FA66@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20111116005308.e47ed734.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20111116005308.e47ed734.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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If you have a Mac running 10.5 or 10.6 and can put the iBook into FireWire target disk mode, then you should be able to live partition the drive. Disk utility under Mac OS X 10.4 doesn't support live partitioning (although they hacked it in to the Boot Camp Assistant on intel macs.) Chris via iPhone On Nov 15, 2011, at 6:53 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> wrote: > 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? > -- > Torfinn > > _____________________________________________
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