Boot Camp

[george]

When I purchased my new iMac 2.8 Tiger was the installed OS, Apple sent me the Leopard upgrade which I duly installed, so far so good. I then activated Boot Camp and (apart from the odd hiccup) all was well that is until I found that the default partition for Boot Camp was a measly 5.5 mb I would like to extend this to a more agreeable size and am not sure how to go about this without destroying the software on the partition.
Any one been down this avenue yet? if so would you care to share your experience.
George

[krissel]

Um, did you mean 5.5 GB?

Well, Leopard has the ability to change partitions dynamically but there are some caveats to doing it of course. It involves either buying a product made to do that or doing it in Terminal.  

Here's some reading on the subject:
http://latenitesoft.blogspot.com/2007/03/l...epartition.html

http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php...=21&fpart=1

And two products:

http://www.subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/ind...p;products_id=6

This one isn't yet compatible with Leopard:

http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php


If you have an external drive you could clone your install to it (be sure to format it in the GUID style) and then boot to it and repartition the iMac from there. Then clone back the external to the iMac into the new partitions. I don't know if SuperDuper or CCC can clone the Windows install so you may have to reinstall that afterward to the new larger partition.

[george]

Thanks Kriss, 5.5 GB it is, I have looked at the links but feel that the simplest route for me to take would be to reformat the 750GB HDD and reinstall Tiger (that was pre-installed) and then install the Leopard upgrade "as supplied by Apple on purchasing a new iMac) then activate Boot Camp to enlarge the partition allocated to Windows. The reason for taking this route is that at the moment there are no bits of software on the machine that cannot be replaced.
George

[Paddy]

George, does your Leopard "upgrade" not allow you to do a fresh install from it, rather than having to go through the entire Tiger install first?

[george]

Paddy, don't know will have a look
G

[sandyman]

George

Just a wee comment.  You may have to "tweak" some settings to get get some software to work on Bootcamp.  This also applies to Parallels.  I assumed that because "X" worked on a Windows machine that it would automagically work on Bootcamp/Parallels.  However as we all know, or should know, ASSUME makes an ASS out of U and Me .

I had to tell one piece of training software to use Windows 2000 compatability to allow it to run.

Sandy