I got myself an iBook (used) for cheap, and I want to install FreeBSD on it. But I also want to keep a small partition with OS X on it. The machine cam with OS X 10.4.11 installed on the hard drive, but didn't come with install media.
So I thought, I'll just shrink the OS X partition (currently there is only one partition on the hard drive) to make room. Well, it turns out that the diskutil method (from OS X) doesn't work on PPC Macs:
Note: this was done with OS X booted off an external drive (firewire)
And gparted seems to be only for x86-compatible machines...
Does anyone know a way to shrink a partition on a PPC Mac?
So I thought, I'll just shrink the OS X partition (currently there is only one partition on the hard drive) to make room. Well, it turns out that the diskutil method (from OS X) doesn't work on PPC Macs:
Code:
$sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s3 limits
Error obtaining resizing information
Resizing encountered error Could not modify partition map (-9986) on disk disk0s3 Macintosh HD
And gparted seems to be only for x86-compatible machines...
Does anyone know a way to shrink a partition on a PPC Mac?