Mini-project: Booting Linux on an iBook, without repartitioning

vasi

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Oct 20, 2025
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Repartitioning an internal hard drive can be a pain. So why not get involved in different, possibly greater pain?

I went through a long and involved process to boot Arch Linux from a file inside the HFS+ hard drive on my iBook. If you want to try it too, I've written up how: https://github.com/vasi/hfswrap

I'm really not sure if there's any point to this, but it was fun trying to make it work!
 
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