help with morph os install mac mini

[actung_bab]

hi l want to be able to change the partion on the mac mini hd without touching the

installed os x 15  thats on there l dont have any discs at all for machine

l dl the dual boot pdf and dl 2 versions of the ubuntu-9.04 iso one boots and says rom error

and the other seems work fine but its to install linux what l need l think is live cd

just so can move the partions and create a mophos os partion as well

thanks any help be great l dont want waste more cds

and told my wife it was her machine so didint get trouble for buying more computers

so muck up machine and wont boot l be in the dog house again.

[zylesea]

I a not sure I understood your post. Are you asking how to resize a OS X partition w/o losing data? Well, if there is OS X 10.5 present then you should be able to resize drive partitions with the integrated disk utility tools. No need for Linux unless you want to pay around with Linux.
If you want to try out MorphOS w/o touching the hd at all you can boot straight off the CD and use the system. You may also do a hybrid CD/usb setup. Just use the basic boot system from CD (boot.img) and install the actual MorphOS system to an usb drive. The mini's firmware isn't able to boot off usb, but the boot.img contains usb drivers, thus once these are loaded you can proceed from an usb drive.

[actung_bab]

okay thanks for that information really apreciated

[Fab]

@Zylesea

In fact, the mini OF can boot from an USB device. I just doubt it's able to detect a plug/unplug event, but if it's already plugged when accessing OF, then the device can be accessed and used to boot.