Alright, here's the deal.
Don't ask me about my reasons for installing Mac OS X on this notebook, or how, please. I just need help with partitions.
I have an img file that I would like to use dd
onto a partition on my harddrive.
However, I have no idea where to begin with creating a new partition, shrinking my current partition, and making a third one as well.
Currently, I have GParted installed, and it tells me that I have /dev/sda1, which is my ext partition, /dev/sda2, which is my extented partition, and /dev/sda5, a child partition to the extended partition, which is called "linux-swap".
I want to create two more. One for music, which would have to be about 15gb large, and one for my installation of Mac OS X. I have a pre-built .img file (6.0gb) of Mac OS X Tiger that I would like to use for this.
Once I create the music partition (which I would like to do first), I would drag all of my music onto this partition, and tell Amarok (under Ubuntu Linux) to read my music from there. Then, I would delete my /home/alex/Music/ folder, to free up that 10gb of space.
Then, I would create my 15gb partition for Mac OS X. After that, I would use dd
to dump the image file onto the partition.
Just one problem -- How? I need instructions for shrinking /dev/sda1, as well as creating the other two partitions, and also how to dump my hard drive image onto the final-created partition.
And, how would I ask GRUB to display this operating system, once installed? Would it automatically come up?
Thank you, very much so, in advance.
EDIT: More info:
alex@alex-laptop:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 73742752 32893224 37103576 47% /
varrun 768376 256 768120 1% /var/run
varlock 768376 0 768376 0% /var/lock
udev 768376 60 768316 1% /dev
devshm 768376 0 768376 0% /dev/shm
lrm 768376 35120 733256 5% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-rt/volatile
alex@alex-laptop:~$
alex@alex-laptop:~$ df -a
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 73742752 32893232 37103568 47% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
/sys 0 0 0 - /sys
varrun 768376 256 768120 1% /var/run
varlock 768376 0 768376 0% /var/lock
udev 768376 60 768316 1% /dev
devshm 768376 0 768376 0% /dev/shm
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
lrm 768376 35120 733256 5% /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-rt/volatile
securityfs 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/security
binfmt_misc 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
none 0 0 0 - /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint
alex@alex-laptop:~$