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Partitioning a Mac hard drive

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So I am setting up Kubuntu on my friends Mac, and despite the issues mac pose I have been able to get all the way into kubuntu. But now I need to partition it. It looks difficult and his dad (and him) will never let me touch a computer in his house again if I skrew it over.

So I ask MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT THE HELL YOUR DOING IF YOU WANNA HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Somthing you should really know is that I am runnig 10.4, Frikkn Tiger (the reason for installing Kubuntu).

K so I want 10GB's of memory for Kubuntu.

If you need more information tell me how to take a screenshot, or if I can't take one when your in the install screen.

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Name Withheld (4815162342-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Make sure you make it REALLY clear for me I am a Linux Noob and will screw the computer anyway if you don't give it to me strait.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

You can resize the partition in gparted

This will help. Make sure the backups are up to date in case of catastrophe too.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DualBoot/MacOSX

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Name Withheld (4815162342-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

Not to be rude but the reason I always ask questions on here is because the Documentation tells me everything I need to know without telling me what to do to fix it.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Can you expand on "fix it" please...

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Name Withheld (4815162342-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#5

It seems like the documentations tell you whats wrong but not what to do. A perfect example... I might post it later if I find it again. A perfect example is where it was telling you how to get a wireless adapter to work so you can go on the internet. I found the article about that and it told me to download a program (NIDISK or something like that) off the internet...... even though they should assume that I can't get on the internet, yet the program I needed was on the disk just waiting to be installed if someone needed it

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Name Withheld (4815162342-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#6

oh also to that last post: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootFromCD , in the "Using Windows Wireless Drivers" it just told me to find the ".inf" file for my windows driver, which at the time I had no idea where that was (when they easaly could of said a few places that it might be located) or later which one that was when there was 2 for every windows OS

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Name Withheld (4815162342-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#7

sorry..... no that was the wrong address that was a different one this is the right one: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.10/internet/C/troubleshooting-wireless.html

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

You may find the wireless chip you use has a native driver. I suggest you run the liveCD environment and play. This will not change the internal drive as it runs in a RAM disk.

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Name Withheld (4815162342-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#9

Oh well I already solved that................. I was just giving an example. and that wasn't even this threads question.......................

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#10

Firstly check if you have a DOS or an EFI partition table. You could see this with a live session, and System->Administration->Gparted

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