How to Dual-Boot OS X and Ubuntu. Nailen Matschke - [email protected] 10/3/2015. This is the point where we configure that partition we made earlier for Ubuntu. But it doesn’t hurt to go with more if you can spare it. And your computer will boot into the Ubuntu desktop.50 GB should be enough.
There are multiple ways to rename a disk partition in OSX, and both should work well depending on your situation. Use Finder to rename disk partition You can simply use the Finder to change the disk partition name. In Finder click on the name of your computer, which should be at the top of your file tree, find your partition there, and then just right click on it and click Get info. In the dialog that opens you can easily enter a new name. Rename MacOS disk partition using command line In OSX you can also use a command line diskutil tool to rename your partition.
Open up the Terminal app, and enter the following command, replacing 'old' with your old name, and 'new' with your new desired name. $ /usr/sbin/diskutil rename old new For example you could do this to change a partition named 'Macintosh HD' to My Mac: $ /usr/sbin/diskutil rename 'Machintosh HD' 'My Mac' As you can see you can use quotes in the name.
Note that depending on your set up, that is if your user home directory is not in the root partition, you may have to update your home directory path in System Preferences. See Also.
Goal Set up a hard drive that is bootable to either OS X 10.6 or Ubuntu, but with a shared user partition so that user data is accessible regardless of which operating system is booted into. Arrangement I did this as an experiment, so I set up the dual boot on an external USB drive.
I never modified my primary internal hard drive in this process. Afterwards, I could boot from the external USB drive, which was a bit slow but definitely useable.
I’m running a MacBook Pro with 10.5 as the local machine. The external USB is 400 GB (this could be far less). I had a Snow Leopard.dmg for this, but not an install DVD. As part of this process, I create a partition on the external USB for the Snow Leopard install.
I then use that partition to install the Snow Leopard OS on another partition, which will be my OS bootable partition. If you have a Snow Leopard DVD, the first partition I make below is not necessary. Step 1 – Format the Drive This step will completely erase the USB drive and any data on it.
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