From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 23:08:51 -0800 From: Ethan Benson To: Iain Sandoe Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Ethan Benson Subject: Re: Multi-boot advice. Message-ID: <20000706230850.T7162@plato.local.lan> References: <200007070652.HAA20893@hyperion.valhalla.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LvvJQ0mOwKOuU4xd" In-Reply-To: <200007070652.HAA20893@hyperion.valhalla.net>; from iain@sandoe.co.uk on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:52:10AM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: --LvvJQ0mOwKOuU4xd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:52:10AM +0100, Iain Sandoe wrote: >=20 > On Fri, Jul 7, 2000 Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:38:38AM +0100, Iain Sandoe wrote: > >> Yea Hey first to Apple Drive setup (which at least these days will all= ow > >> most stuff to be set up) - and then to pdisk - to check it out. > > > > just don't create any linux partitions with apples drive setup, it > > won't work. instead add up the sizes of all the planned linux > > parittions and create a placeholder HFS partition with apple drive > > setup, then delete it with pdisk and populate the freed space with the > > linux and bootstrap partitions. >=20 > This is interesting. I've seen (several times) the comment that the Apple > Drive Setup tool doesn't work for Linux. >=20 > However, it certainly did for me (on the Lombard & on a 9600/233)... under > what circumstances does it fail? every time i tested it the following occured: * drive setup crashed * the partition tables were corrupt. its just good policy to use the native fdisk to create an OS'es partitions, on intel we must use DOS fdisk to create DOS/Win* partitions and linux fdisk for linux partitions, same with OpenBSD, FreeBSD etc. powerpc is no different. =20 --=20 Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/ --LvvJQ0mOwKOuU4xd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature --LvvJQ0mOwKOuU4xd-- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/