From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200007070846.JAA05142@hyperion.valhalla.net> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 09:46:04 +0100 Subject: Re: Multi-boot advice. From: "Iain Sandoe" To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org CC: Ethan Benson Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, Jul 7, 2000 Ethan Benson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:52:10AM +0100, Iain Sandoe wrote: >> 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 allow >> >> 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. >> >> This is interesting. I've seen (several times) the comment that the Apple >> Drive Setup tool doesn't work for Linux. >> >> 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. This is OK for the people on this list. We are happy with text-only command line interfaces (hell, I once wrote an entire app in assembler... but I wouldn't want to do that ever again.) However, if we want Linux to be extended to a wider audience the kind of intuitive set up tool (like drive set-up) is going to be essential. Someone should tell Apple if there's a problem - they seem to be willing to support (at least) the existence of Linux & other OSs - unlike certain other companie$ Iain. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/