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What I want is:
- Preserve the installed XP OS.
- Have MacOSX Snow Leopard available.
- Have Ubuntu Linux available.
- Have a sizable FAT32 partition (A Windows format which is read/writeable by
all OSs - for example this is the standard used for 'universally readable' USB
drives).
The mini has a 160GB Hard Drive. I reckon:
- 50GB XP
- 40GB MacOSX
- 30GB Linux
- 40GB FAT32 shared filespace
- A couple of GBs for Linux swap
Now, MBR can have 4 primary partitions only. Or it can have 3 primary partitions
and an extended partition, with multiple "Logical" partitions contained.
However...
For an OS to be (easily) found and bootable by Chameleon, it should be on a
primary MBR partition. So, the partition scheme will be:
- 50GB XP - NTFS
- 40GB MacOSX - HFS Plus
- 30GB Linux - ext4
- Extended
- Logical: 40GB Shared - FAT32
- Logical: 2GB Linux swap - Not formatted
So, with that established here goes. I'm assuming your Mini is new, and there's
not loads of stuff all over the HDD. That lets you shrink the XP partition to
make space for the others without worying about data loss. If you have got stuff
all over the HDD, then defragment your HDD first. And definitely back up
everything you care about to an external media - DVD, USB, another computer,
whatever, before doing any of the steps below.
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