Gutsy on G4: Dual boot?

[troche]

Hello,
I am a Powerbook G4 user who has dowloaded the Feisty live cd and loved it. I am currently dowloading Gutsy, but I have a couple questions:

First of all, is it possible to create a partition for Gutsy and keep the Mac OS X partition, all while keeping everything I already have on my mac? Like all my music and files and stuff? If so, how would I go about doing this?

Second, is it worth it to do this if I only have approximately 10 gigs left on my 70-gig drive? I might be able to clean up a bit and dump some files onto an external, once I get one, but is it feasable?

Finally, I am trying to do this because the live cd didn't cooperate with my G3 ibook which I would have wiped clean... It took forever to even boot the desktop (a couple hours), and when it finally did, i could not see the menu bar or taskbar, and when I double clicked on Install, it wouldn't load.

Thanks for all your help!

[Knoeki]

yes, it is possible to dual-boot from one HDD with multiple partitions, however, there is a big chance to screw up ( from my own experience, that is.. )

the 10GB thing doesn't seem too much of a problem, although it highly depends on what you want to do. for a normal install its more than enough.

[frog_pilot]

If you disable Journaling on your OSX-Volume before starting install, the ubuntu installer usually won't fail to preserve consistency on your OSX Volume. But be aware that you need enough free space on your OSX volume to run it smoothly. About 5 GB of free space should be sufficient for Tiger.

[Auria]

i think the less available space you have, the riskier is partitionning - anyway it's always recommended to do a full backup first