Hi Simon I have tackled this before,

I did it on a G4 1.5GHz powerbook. From what I remember:

-I backup up my mac and wiped all the partitions -made 2 new partitions using OSX installer -first partition is free space -second partition for OSX -I used fedora Core 2 at the time, and told it to format and install to the largest free space

Nowadays Ubuntu will pick up OSX and add an entry to GRUB. I had to do it manually. If you use an intel mac also, you can use the refit bootloader which is very clean.

Hope that helps

Richard

2009/7/25 Simon Royal mail@simonroyal.co.uk:

Hi

I am a Mac user who currently has a PowerBook G4 which I want to dual boot OSX and Ubuntu on. Is there any on the group that has done this?

I really don't want to mess my current Mac OSX Leopard installation up, but luckily I do triple boot at the mo between OSX Leopard, OSX Tiger and OS9 all on separate partitions. So if I could I would lose or use the Tiger and OS9 partitions for use in this project.

...

I have dual booted OSX and Ubuntu a few years ago and it worked, but I can't

for the life of me remember how.

Simon Royal

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