From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39659EB2.D4C095A6@amulet.co.jp> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 18:11:14 +0900 From: Hollis Blanchard MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Iain Sandoe CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Ethan Benson Subject: Re: Drive Setup (was Multi-boot) References: <200007070846.JAA05142@hyperion.valhalla.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Iain Sandoe wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 7, 2000 Ethan Benson wrote: [snip] > > > > 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. [snip] > > 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$ I have never had Drive Setup crash on me, not even once. To try to settle this question (not about stability, but about whether it produces Linux-acceptable partition maps), I've just used Drive Setup's unmodified "Preferred LinuxPPC" setting to partition a disk. The Mac OS is currently installing, and I expect no problems when I install Linux in 5 minutes. The only complaint I have with Drive Setup is that it insists on erasing all partitions on the drive any time you want to make partition changes. Even newbies wondrously appreciating the beautiful Mac OS widgets in their partitioning utility will not want to reformat their entire hard disk. -Hollis ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/