[P1] New iBook Owner / iBook Hard drive partition

[Tyler Krehbiel]

I'm sure that i would like to run a seperate linux.

~Tyler


----- Original Message -----
From: "david" <davidwb at spymac.com>
To: "iBook List" <ibook at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: [P1] New iBook Owner / iBook Hard drive partition


> 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
>
>
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