I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.11.
Thank you and let me know if you need any other information.
Mint Dual Boot Partitions Mac OS X
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Roby
Mint Dual Boot Partitions Mac OS X
I'm looking to dual boot with my mac, however, I'm not sure what to do with the partitions. This is what shows up:
I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.11.
Thank you and let me know if you need any other information.
I'm running Mac OS X 10.4.11.
Thank you and let me know if you need any other information.
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breaker
Re: Mint Dual Boot Partitions Mac OS X
I have no experience with the Mint partitioning tool on a Mac. However, your version of OSX supports an EFI BIOS, so is that what your Mac has, and the GPT?
I guess it's good because the GPT breaks out of the old 4 primary partition limit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
Anyway, here's a guide for general usage, YMMV - scroll down to read scorp123 method - http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=358
Does OSX have tools to shrink partitions, etc? Just curious.
gparted should work on GPT. Here's a cool chart to see what kind of partitions Gparted can shrink, etc - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GParted it's just a front end for GNU Parted, or "parted" in the terminal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Parted
Hope you find your answer!
I guess it's good because the GPT breaks out of the old 4 primary partition limit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
Anyway, here's a guide for general usage, YMMV - scroll down to read scorp123 method - http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=358
Does OSX have tools to shrink partitions, etc? Just curious.
gparted should work on GPT. Here's a cool chart to see what kind of partitions Gparted can shrink, etc - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GParted it's just a front end for GNU Parted, or "parted" in the terminal - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Parted
Hope you find your answer!
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Raydog
Re: Mint Dual Boot Partitions Mac OS X
You didn't say what Mac you have so, here is a good generic guide for installing on an Intel Mac. It's for Ubuntu but Mint uses the same installer. Hope this helps.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Macte ... stallation
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Macte ... stallation
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Roby
Re: Mint Dual Boot Partitions Mac OS X
It's an iMac OS X 10.4.11 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo. Is there any other information needed?
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madonatti
Re: Mint Dual Boot Partitions Mac OS X
You need to partition your harddrive, either through disk utility or boot camp assistant, both of which are in the utilities folder in applications.
For disk utility, create a partition of whatever size you like, and designate it as free space. You'll be able to select this when you boot linuxmint from the CD.
I did mine through disk utility, but you can use boot camp assistant instead. Just give it the location of the linux files instead of windows files, and it should take care of it for you.
If an error occurs while partitioning your drive, try repairing the drive while booted off of the Mac OSX install DVD, then partitioning again. I had to do that for my computer.
For disk utility, create a partition of whatever size you like, and designate it as free space. You'll be able to select this when you boot linuxmint from the CD.
I did mine through disk utility, but you can use boot camp assistant instead. Just give it the location of the linux files instead of windows files, and it should take care of it for you.
If an error occurs while partitioning your drive, try repairing the drive while booted off of the Mac OSX install DVD, then partitioning again. I had to do that for my computer.