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fab5freddy
Mar 20, 2008, 01:42 AM
How do you correctly make 3 Bootable Partitions
on an External Firewire 800 Harddrive....?

I want to make a Tiger, Leopard, and a Linux Partition on a Bootable Firewire 800 HD....

thanks for any tips on how to partition and install.....!


fab5freddy
Mar 20, 2008, 08:04 PM
Guess this is an advanced question.....?

no answers......
TuffLuffJimmy
Mar 20, 2008, 08:08 PM
How do you correctly make 3 Bootable Partitions
on an External Firewire 800 Harddrive....?

I want to make a Tiger, Leopard, and a Linux Partition on a Bootable Firewire 800 HD....

thanks for any tips on how to partition and install.....!

I know you can do a triple on an internal drive, but I don't know about external. maybe you can figure it out, but here's my contribution:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=187465
heatmiser
Mar 20, 2008, 08:10 PM
Use Carbon Copy Cloner to make the Tiger and Leopard partitions bootable. I've got my external currently divvied into Leopard, Tiger, and a FAT32 for Windows accessibility. Look up recovery and cloning software for your Linux OS.
fab5freddy
Mar 21, 2008, 11:09 AM
Do you have to make the 3 partitions
before you install the 3 operating systems...?
heatmiser
Mar 21, 2008, 12:55 PM
Do you have to make the 3 partitions
before you install the 3 operating systems...?

No, but it's much easier if you do. Decide how large you want each partition to be, partition the drive, and then you can start cloning your drive to each partition as needed. You can non-destructively partition in the Terminal by following this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTLVVXkWwd0&eurl=http://video.aol.com/video-detail/non-destructive-partitioning-in-mac-os-x-tiger/3494989056) guide.