[vahnx]

When I first got my netbook I initially wiped it and used the MBR partition scheme and installed 7, 10.5.x, and UNR. Then SL came out and I decided it's easier to manage 1 OS and since SL only worked with GPT (MBR method never worked for me) I just installed SL on a single 160GB GPT formatted drive. Now since the ChromiumOS release is soon, new Ubuntu, etc. I've been wanting to partition my existing SL GPT and add possibly a /Data, /Windows, /Extended (Linux/Swap) like my desktop is setup.

How possible is this with my GPT and already installed SL setup? I only have a 4GB USB but I used a friends 8GB for SL before.

PS I know I can run these OS's off of USB drives but since I have a 160GB, why not sacrifice some space for speed?

[Shooter]

Use time machine make a backup of existing SL. Partition hard drive using MBR install other OS's first. Install SL last using time machine back up and be sure to run NBI 084 RC1. Put Ubuntu on your flash drive and run gparted from the live cd on the flashh drive to make SL partition active. Works like a champ with my config.

[seebeexee]

Originally Posted by vahnx

When I first got my netbook I initially wiped it and used the MBR partition scheme and installed 7, 10.5.x, and UNR. Then SL came out and I decided it's easier to manage 1 OS and since SL only worked with GPT (MBR method never worked for me) I just installed SL on a single 160GB GPT formatted drive. Now since the ChromiumOS release is soon, new Ubuntu, etc. I've been wanting to partition my existing SL GPT and add possibly a /Data, /Windows, /Extended (Linux/Swap) like my desktop is setup.

How possible is this with my GPT and already installed SL setup? I only have a 4GB USB but I used a friends 8GB for SL before.

PS I know I can run these OS's off of USB drives but since I have a 160GB, why not sacrifice some space for speed?

Any luck with this setup so far? I'm trying to achieve pretty much the same goal with no luck yet. I've partitioned my drive with the MBR scheme, 1st partition is XP, 2nd partition is for Snow Leopard, 3rd for a shared FAT32 data partition, then a 4th Extended partition containing a Linux ext3 partition and a SWAP partition. Is there any reason why this would not work?

I'm very familiar with installing Windows/Linux operating systems, including dual, triple, and quadruple booting systems, but I can't get Snow Leopard to install when exactly following the instructions here: OS X SL Install on Dell 10V with Existing XP. The install always fails and says that it couldn't install all necessary support files.

Any suggestions would be great.

[vahnx]

How does one go about making a Time Machine backup without formatting a disk and only using unallocated space? My netbook has maybe 50GB/160GB used, and my external has like 30GB free. If I free up 20GB, could I somehow image the only 50GB used onto my existing External (I'm pretty sure Time Machine requires a dedicated partition/drive). Would I be able to say free up 20GB on my external, divide into 2 partitions w/p losing data, then plug into my netbook and Time Machine onto the clean partition?