Creating a nonwindows partition.

I plan to install a linux based operating system on my computer. I have already used bootcamp to create a windows partition.

I'd like to use bootcamp due to its ease of restoring a partition.

Do I need to somehow trick bootcamp into creating another partition?

edit: can i also set osx as my default os so that bootcamp won't show up unless i hit option?

Bootcamp is not for installing Linux as far as I know.

You can create a FAT32 partition using disk utility and then use a linux boot disk (DVD or USB stick) to boot from and re-format and install Linux on that


http://lifehacker.com/5531037/how-t...-with-windows-and-linux-no-boot-camp-required

I'm gonna bump this thread because I like bootcamps ability to boot to a default OS rather than ask me every time I turn on my computer.

I believe all I have to do is open bootcamp and pretend like I have a Windows .iso. I'll post my results here.

You can install Linux with the Boot Camp assistant, however, you're going to have to improvise along the way. For example: You obviously can not install any distro of Linux to a FAT-32 or NTFS partition. Also a bit of caution.... GRUB can be unpredictable on occasion. You don't want to overwrite your OS X EFI boot sector with GRUB, so be careful.

chscag said:

You can install Linux with the Boot Camp assistant, however, you're going to have to improvise along the way. For example: You obviously can not install any distro of Linux to a FAT-32 or NTFS partition. Also a bit of caution.... GRUB can be unpredictable on occasion. You don't want to overwrite your OS X EFI boot sector with GRUB, so be careful.

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Dude you are exactly the person I need to talk to. What is grub? What is Gnome and KDE?

And what kind of file partition exists besides NTFS and FAT-32. Obviously I will need to play around with it but if you answer these questions I'll feel a lot better.

burnedfaceless said:

Dude you are exactly the person I need to talk to. What is grub? What is Gnome and KDE?

And what kind of file partition exists besides NTFS and FAT-32. Obviously I will need to play around with it but if you answer these questions I'll feel a lot better.

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Based solely on these questions, I would STRONGLY recommend that you have a good backup before proceeding with installing Linux or anything..

GRUB is bootloader used to load Linux. GNOME and KDE are two popular desktop environments..GNOME uses GTK at it's core and KDE uses Qt..

Raz0rEdge said:

Based solely on these questions, I would STRONGLY recommend that you have a good backup before proceeding with installing Linux or anything..

GRUB is bootloader used to load Linux. GNOME and KDE are two popular desktop environments..GNOME uses GTK at it's core and KDE uses Qt..

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Thanks