Subject: Re: Installation Problem - Manual Goof?
From: Brian Ross (applejedi1@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Aug 12 2000 - 01:46:13 MDT
By that token I can take FWB Toolkit and adjust the partition. I just wasn't
sure if that was kosher for fdisk on the reboot...
> From: Moonglue@141.com (Michael A. Peters)
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2000 00:12:12 +0200
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Installation Problem - Manual Goof?
>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I am installing YDL on to a G4 Mac tower with 128MB Ram, and about a 9.6GB
>> hard drive. The manual bites, big-time, especially on G4/OS-9 partitioning.
>> The ATAPI drive ships with all of the memory allocated to the HFS partition
>> (beyond the small starting items), not to the free space area as identified
>> in the manual. The manual tells me I can't get rid of the HFS partition,
>> but I'm not getting a clear picture of how I move space out of the allocated
>> area into a free area, or into a new partition.
>>
>> Any thoughts from the core wireheads who LIKE doing this stuff?
>
> You need to repartion your drive.
>
> Create one partion for Mac OS that is smaller than the 9gb and leave
> the rest as free space.
>
> You will need to reinstall MacOS on this smaller partition.
>
> I'm not sure how OS 9 does it, but with the Drive Setup that comes
> with OS 8.x you boot off CD, launch drive setup, create one partition
> and shrink the size down (leaving the rest as free space).
>
> Then, from the YDL installer use pdisk (which they call fdisk) to
> slice and dice the free space.
>
> You're shrinking the HFS partition (which technically speaking is
> getting rid of it and then making a new, smaller one- which is why
> you'll need reinstall the Mac OS).
>
>
>
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