Note: I'm a noobie, but am learning and want very much to know more. I am also
using Debian Etch on my PPC G4 Digital Audio Mac with an internal IDE drive.
My goal: I have a OWC/Newer Tech firewire(400) 320G hard drive and I would like to put 3
bootable sections on this drive. The first would be a bootable section for a
Linux distro. The second would be a 100G portion which may be a backup clone
for a Linux distro or another Linux distro. The third and last portion would be
a 100G bootable MacOS (Tiger) system.
After a lot of investigation into how to arrange the partitions, I used the Mac
DiskUtility to "partition" the drive into two parts. The first being reserved
for Linux(200G of free space) and the second for MacOSX. I then used mac-fdisk (in Debian)