From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3965CF90.B6457A0D@amulet.co.jp> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 21:39:44 +0900 From: Hollis Blanchard MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bh40@calva.net, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Drive Setup References: <200007070846.JAA05142@hyperion.valhalla.net> <39659EB2.D4C095A6@amulet.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Ok, update on Drive Setup: I partitioned a stock iMac DV with 25GB drive using the "Preferred LinuxPPC" scheme (which was surprisingly different from the "Preferred MkLinux" and "Standard MkLinux" schemes). The Drive Setup version was J1-1.8, which is a Japanese-localized 1.8 (it was on the Mac OS J1-8.6 CD which came with this iMac DV). Here's what pdisk told me (YDL installed fine, as will any other distribution that handles Apple partition maps): All partitions were created with type Apple_UNIX_SVR2. The names and sizes were as follows (I'm preserving the case): (Apple_HFS 3.8G) A/UX Root 4.7G Swap 50M Usr file system 4.7G Opt file system 300M Home file system 18.9G The kernel (2.2.17pre9-ben1, but anything recent should be the same) had no difficulty automatically finding the root partition on hda9. From earlier experiments I know that the kernel does not just check the partition name (so it wasn't fooled in this case either). It's worth noting that root was the first Apple_UNIX_SVR2 partition; I know that yaboot at least would have been confused by the capital S in "Swap". It seems to me that while using the default setup may not be a good idea (19GB /home??), Drive Setup does work fine for creating Linux partitions. Perhaps renaming them to more standard Linux name would be a good idea. (I don't have his card with me, but if anyone knows the Apple employee who wrote Drive Setup please forward this and/or cc him on this discussion.) -Hollis ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/