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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"


Be extremely careful using the Remove All Partitions option. Avoid using it at all if
possible because you can accidentally destroy your Mac OS installation!
 Keep all partitions and use existing free space??”The one you want to use in
most cases because it won??™t alter your Mac OS or Mac OS X installations and uses
only the identified free space (as created previously). This is the option you should
select if you are using Automatically partition. You can also select the Review (and
modify if needed) the partitions created option, which will enable you to doublecheck
the partitions that the installer creates for you and change them if need be.
 Option 2: Manually Partition with Disk Druid??”This is the more advanced option
that allows you to create your partitions to your preference. Here is the sequence for
creating new Linux partitions:
a. Choose the drive on which you want to install Yellow Dog Linux.
b. Choose New to create a new partition. You must create three partitions. First,
choose Filesystem Type???Apple BootStrap. No mount point is needed. It should be
1MB and fixed size. This partition is for booting and should be the very first partition.
Second, choose Filesystem Type???Swap. No mount point required. It should
be a minimum of 256MB (256MB is generally enough, although some say this should
be set to twice the size of your physical RAM.


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