Since my fiance is down in Corvallis OR, I'm in DuPont WA, and our wedding that we're planning is in Hillsboro OR, I do quite a bit of driving.  The rules of the road are supposed to be to stay in the right lane unless passing . . . in reality it's the exact opposite.  It's infuriating when people drive so slow in the left lane and don't move over for anything!  Get out of the left lane people!!!!!!!

For the past two days I've spent the majority of my time (when I'm not in class or at work) trying to get my 250 gig external hard drive set up just the way I want it.  My idea was to partition about 7 gigs of it to install OS X Tiger on, and partition the rest as a FAT32 cross-platform storage drive.  I now believe this to be impossible.  The problem is that Windows cannot read the Mac partition table, and the Mac cannot boot an OS from a Windows partition table, although the Mac can otherwise use a Windows partition table just fine.  So now I have a 7 gig Mac HFS+ partition that is useless on my drive.  The part that really sucks about the whole thing is that I spent about 8 hours working on getting the partitions set up the way they are now, only to find out that Tiger can't be installed on a drive using Windows partitioning.  If for some reason you ever needed to have an HFS+ and FAT32 partition on the same drive though, I know how to do that.  In a Mac terminal window use the command

diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 2 MBRFormat MS-DOS fat32partitionName 225G "Journaled HFS+"  macPartitionName 7G

This command will create 2 partitions, 1 HFS+ and 1 FAT32.  Both partitions can be mounted in OS X and the FAT32 partition will show up in Windows.  In the above command 225G and 7G are the size of the partitions you want to create in gigabytes and /dev/disk2 is the name of the disk you are partitioning and formatting.  You can find out the disk name on your machine by using the command

diskutil list

Hopefully someone will have use for this information.  In the meantime I'll be formatting my drive with a single FAT32 partition for storage use only.