[P1] New iBook Owner / iBook Hard drive partition

[david]

On 2/11/04 1:52 PM, "Tyler Krehbiel" <krehbiet at pluto.dsu.edu> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> I'm new to the list, and a soon to be new iBook owner. I sold my Lombard 400
> last week, and my iBook 600 Mhz should be here tomorrow.
> 
> I'm pretty sure its going to come with 10.1 on it, and so of couse i'm going
> to erase it and install Panther on it right away.
> 
> One thing that i would like to do i play with linux on it. So i'm thinking
> it would just be best to partition it right away so i can install linux
> later.
> 
> Its got a 40 GB hard drive, so i think leaving about 4-5 GB for linux would
> be good, i dont really need much, i just want to play around with it.
> 
> I think i read that on the panther disk i can get into drive setup and
> partition. What do you guys think? Anyone done this?
> 
Depends on what you mean by play with Linux. Since OS X *is* linux you can
get a pretty full linux experience through the OS X terminal and X11. In
which case there is no reason to partition.

david