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Arne

macrumors regular
Original poster
May 14, 2006
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Germany
Hello,

I want to install Fedora Core, basically for testing, I won't use it very often. I am sorry, I know this is not the perfect Forum for it but I think my questions fit best here.

My first questen is the following: I know I can use another drive for booting (I think they call it traget mode). But is it possible to boot a system that is on the 2nd partition on an external (USB-) drive? Or will the Mac OS X bootloader only look for bootable partitions at the beginning of the drive?

My second question is, if it is somehow possible to resize a HFS+ partition securely, if it is on an external disc an maybe revert it to the original size. I know I can do that with bootcamp, but bootcamp only does this for the drive in my MacBook, not for external drives.

Thanks in advance!
 
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