Re: Partitioning a Sawtooth?

Re: Partitioning a Sawtooth?

[Stephane GEORGES]

I did work with Benjamin to install linuxPPC on my G4 sawtooth.

I have formated my ide disk like this.
I could not use pdisk.

If you can re-format your hard-drive, use the apple tool to initialize
your drive.
1- Put a HFS+ partition for your Mac OS
2- Put a A/UX root (yes root not swap) for your linux swap (512 MB for
256MB RAM)
3- Put a A/UX swap(yes swap not root) for your linux native (at least
1GB)
4- Put another A/UX swap for data ...
5- ...

Then, your install (Yellow Dog) will recognize all your partitions and
you won't
need to use fdisk (which did not seem to work correctly).

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Partitioning a Sawtooth?

[Shannon Spires]

Sorry if this question is basic, but how do you partition a Sawtooth's
drive?

I'd like to try Benjamin's new kernel
(http://calvaweb.calvacom.fr/bh40/test.html) on my Sawtooth. However, I
can't figure out how to partition the drive. Pdisk (0.7a4) can't even see
the ATA drive. And so far, I haven't found a newer version.

What's the procedure?

TIA!
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Shannon Spires
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