Hi there, I've done some research on setting up a triple boot on a mactel, but they all involve installing all the Os's at the same time. The thing is, I'm already running snow leopard, and windows 7, via bootcamp and rEFIt, and I'd like to be able to just add another partition and install ubuntu 9.10. I'm not completely familiar with how partitions work, as far as multiple Os's. So I'm wondering if anyone can help me, in whether it's possible to just add another partition, to install linux? I will do the fresh install of all three if i need to, I'd just prefer not to. My current job is tutoring authors in the formatting program LaTeX. and I need to be familiar with the process on all os's. so having all three on one comp would be quite useful to me. thanks in advance for any advice
Yes, but do you really want to reformat your drive and install a third file system? There are options. Popular Linux distributions for the PPC processor include Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, & 'Yellow Dog': they'll all run either KDE or GNOME, familiar to students. Solaris Unix is not that popular I suppose. Ubuntu 9.10 has been having problems. All but Debian bring a 'stable' distribution out every six months, stable or not. (I'd probably recommend Fedora.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Live_USB_creator You can install a Linux with LaTeX, TeX, & all their brethren on a USB flash drive, and boot more easily from it. Or, if you haven't the energy, you can probably buy a distribution (with LaTeX likely pre-installed) for about $15.
