On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 09:38:51PM +0100, Karl Lattimer wrote: > Bootcamp just resizes the partitions. It doesn't have anything to do > with booting another OS.
You don't even need Boot Camp for that. You can use it to handle some simple resizing cases, but all it does in that regard is call a command-line tool (diskutil resizeVolume) that's built into Mac OS X 10.4.6 and newer. The command-line tool is also more flexible than Boot Camp, though at the same time it's less friendly to users who aren't used to command lines. The main thing that Boot Camp adds is a nice GUI plus a .dmg with Windows drivers that can be burned onto a CD and then installed into a Windows partition. All Linux needs to function in legacy BIOS mode is the firmware update. > If you go to http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page and check the > right hand side of the page, it looks like the site are building a > custom live CD for this purpose. I haven't tried it myself but I think > it'd be a better bet than another distro. Last time I tried their live CD it only supported text mode, which doesn't meet his implied requirement of a GUI with working mouse support. However, it might have developed into a more full-featured live CD since I tried it last, which was several months ago. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
