diskutil fails, in Triple Boot setup

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  1. nickyl, Sep 7, 2008

    nickyl macrumors newbie

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    hi, I'm trying to put Ubuntu and WinXP onto my new iMac Leopard.

    I follow the steps in
    http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp

    But when running diskutil :
    # diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 200G "Linux" "Linux" 64G "MS-DOS FAT32" "Windows" 32G

    It complains about "Linux" not a valid file system type.

    Just doing resize the Mac parition is OK :
    # diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 200G

    Retrying the above 3 partition commands still fail.

    Any idea? Is that OnMac steps not for 10.5 OSX?

    Thanks in advance.


    BTW, I am a unix/linux guy, so pretty comfortable with commands. But new to Mac ...
     
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  2. wrldwzrd89, Sep 8, 2008

    wrldwzrd89 macrumors G5

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    Yes, it appears that these instructions have NOT been updated for Leopard yet.
     
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  3. MacUser2525, Sep 8, 2008

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    Well since you will be formatting the partition on install of Ubuntu anyways I would just make the partition FAT32 actually I would make the second partition you should have for swap FAT32 as well.
     
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