How to make APM disk which can be detected by Linux' GParted?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:06:53 -0800 (PST)
Muammer Hamutçu <revivo73 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> The problem is, the apple-boot partitions must have some free space before them (25K~1M in size) in order to be detected by Ubuntu Install (or Linux GParted for the same matter)
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> If there's no such space before apple boot blocks, Ubuntu Install cannot see the partitions thereby making the installation of Ubuntu impossible.
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> The question is how can I properly add such free space using FreeBSD gpart? Or using any other partitioning tool? 

I haven't tried this, but does it work if you create a small FreeBSD partition (with gpart), and then delete it after you have created the others?

HTH
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Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at getmail.no>