<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Just one (1) question...<div><br><div>On my iMac (G4 1GHz, 1Gb Leo 10.5.7) I want to use a Linux version... </div><div>Therefor I downloaded Ubuntu 8 (and 9 and 7). By Disk Utility I made a bootable partition on an external FireWire drive... Changed my startup disk to this partition, and rebooted...</div><div>Did not work... although the startup disk appears... (By holding down Alt-key during rebooting)</div><div><br></div><div>Diggin' around on the 'net, learned me in a some way I needed a boot-program, this is the reason why I'm writing this e-mail... </div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3300FF"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">My aim is to boot from a partition of my FW-drive and install a Linux version on another partition on that FW-drive...</span></font></font></div><div><br></div><div>And now the question: is there an unambiguous manual for this newbie that will guide me through this?</div><div><br></div><div>thanks in advance, </div><div><br></div><div>Hubert</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>