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[Tom <question78753@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #78753 on Ubuntu changed:
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Tom proposed the following answer:
Great :))))
What's in Macintosh HD ?  It might not let you look because you haven't yet installed the appropriate libraries in Ubuntu.  Hmm, maybe it's better not to even try to look.  The important thing is that it is there & so therefore your files aren't lost :))  Also it's good to see BootCamp.

It looks as though sda2 is your "Macintosh HD" either sda1 or sda3 is
your BootCamp & sda4 is Ubuntu.  The Ubuntu partition does look very
tiny tho and also there's no swap partition so i would guess that Ubuntu
is feeling a bit cramped and acting a bit weird and tetchy.

I've not been able to find what to add to grub's menu.lst to boot into Mac but i have found this forum
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=328

and also this guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook/TripleBoot#Install%20Ubuntu

although you've already done a lot of it.  I would be cautious about
it's advice because resizing or deleting partitions is not a great plan.
At the moment at least you can just about use Ubuntu and all the other
partitions seem quite vital too right now.  I don't think that simply
removing Ubuntu will get you booting back into Leopard.  I think you
have to get Ubuntu's grub to boot you in or find out how to use bootcamp
or something to boot you into Leopard and i'm not sure how to do either
right now.  Hopefully you'll be able to post into the forum i just gave
a link to and get an answer there.  Please let us know!

Do you have an Ubuntu Cd and can you use the Cd to boot up the machine?
Does it give a menu item "Try Ubuntu without changes to this machine"?
If so then the firefox in there should be able to access the internet
too.  Also please let us know if you have a Leopard Cd.

Another question is that if you open the "Documents" folder in "Places"
can you get a status bar across the bottom showing how much free space
you have in Ubuntu?  I want to see if there's enough to add a bit more
functionality so that we can read your Leopard files without worrying.

Sorry all i seem to have is questions right now but at least we know
your data is still there.  Please let me know if any of that guide makes
sense and perhaps post what you think is a good plan based on that.
With your knowledge of Mac and mine of Ubuntu then maybe we can work
this out together.  Of course someone else might drop in that knows a
lot about Macs but mostly we deal with Windows refugees in here rather
than Mac users keen to explore.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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