iBook G4: shrink OSX to make room for FreeBSD?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:34:20 -0500
Chris Carr <carrch at mac.com> wrote:

> 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. 

Good idea! I happen to have a POwerBook G4 here, which runs OS X 10.5.x. Tried it - yes it worked. Thanks!

> 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.)

Well, various articles on the web suggested that it would work from terminal (ie. command line). It didn't work for me.
Anyway, I'm all set now.
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Torfinn