Thread: MB 5,2 - Disk Utility won't partition; need to nuke and pave; have questions
hey, all, i've been toying linux year , half, , got new 13" macbook in july. i'd carve out partition karmic on macbook, neither disk utility nor boot camp allow me so. both utilities needing format drive , reinstall. time machine backups date (as of few minutes ago, matter of fact), i've never restored time machine. understand need boot snow leopard disk have, , i'm choose "restore backup" (or effect, anyway). don't know if i'll opportunity reformat/repartition drive @ time, or if should boot system disk, reformat, repartition, restore backup. our cheapo little netbook don't mind plowing in , figuring out go. macbook's different story. i'd have idea of i'm getting before there. tia as far goes, since i'm formatting/repartitioning (for dual-boot, os x , karmic-gnome), might go ahead , set few different partitions, /users (os x) , /home (lin...