Fwd: [Gllug] Saturday: anyone fancy installing Linux on an ibook?

[NorthLondon John]

Resend, because it doesn't seem to have gone through the first time 
<sigh>

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> From: NorthLondon John <northlondonjohn at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: 26 March 2004 16:30:21 GMT
> To: Greater London Linux Users Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Saturday: anyone fancy installing Linux on an 
> ibook?
>
>
> On 26 Mar 2004, at 13:15, Matthew King wrote:
>
>> NorthLondon John wrote:
>>> Won't be at the Gllug meet, and haven't installed linux on an ibook 
>>> before, but I can answer your last question.
>>> No, unfortunately, you have to reformat your entire hd, OSX can't be 
>>> preserved, HFS+ partitions can't be resized.
>>
>> Surely you can use some network and/or 2nd HDD magic to preserve the 
>> data during format or does HFS have some dodgy stuff in it (I 
>> wouldn't be a bit surprised but I can't think what sort of stuff) 
>> which won't allom this?
>>
>
> Clumsy phrasing - yes, you can use another hdd etc to back up data - 
> not sure about the complete osx installation.
>
>> And is that "HFS+ partitions can't be resized" or "HFS+ partitions 
>> can't be resized at the moment"?
>>
>
> "At the moment", although I've just found this:
> Patch landed for hfs(+) resizing in Gnu Parted:
> http://lists.linux.it/pipermail/ppc/2003-November/000344.html
>
> As far as I know, none of the ppc distros have hfs resizing built in. 
> (But it's been a few months since I looked at this.)
>
> John
>
>
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