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**I'm not exactly sure if this is the proper forum for this post, so please don't judge me too harshly if it's not**
I've been using Macs for about 4-5 years now and absolutely love them. I've used them for fairly basic things so far (photos, web browsing, etc...), but I'm interested in going further. I was hoping to be able to run Linux on my machine (13" Macbook Pro), but I don't want to take up space on my internal disk or partition that disk. I have an external drive that I was hoping to partition and install Ubuntu on, using the other partition for general storage/backup. I was wondering if this is possible and what might be the best way of going about it. For instance: Will I be able to boot from a partition on an external drive at all?
P.S. I'm running 10.6.1. Figure that might be important...
Any help is very much appreciated.
I've been using Macs for about 4-5 years now and absolutely love them. I've used them for fairly basic things so far (photos, web browsing, etc...), but I'm interested in going further. I was hoping to be able to run Linux on my machine (13" Macbook Pro), but I don't want to take up space on my internal disk or partition that disk. I have an external drive that I was hoping to partition and install Ubuntu on, using the other partition for general storage/backup. I was wondering if this is possible and what might be the best way of going about it. For instance: Will I be able to boot from a partition on an external drive at all?
P.S. I'm running 10.6.1. Figure that might be important...
Any help is very much appreciated.