Subject: Re: Problems partitioning my YDL disk...
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 09:02:37 MST
I have done similar things with LinuxPPC (2000-Q4) installer's version of
fdisk/pdisk.
On Wednesday, February 20, 2002, at 07:47 PM, Pete Peters wrote:
> Oh, Linux and Mac people are so devious, hehehehehe. Nice job, Bion. Chalk
> this one up to the Humans.
>
> What I did was got the old ramdisk image from my YDL1.1 and booted the
> BootX from it using the 2.2.19 kernel. This took me into the old
> installer that used fdisk to do the partitioning. It is a command line
> utility so it take some looking at the help (the '?' command) but it is
> pretty easy. I used it to blow away my old swap, boot, and ext2, and
> then the small hfs partition that both YDL and MacOS can see. I then
> used the 'C' (<- note capital) to make a new 300MB Apple_HFS partition
> right after the other two Mac partitions. I left the rest of the space
> blank for the YDL2.1 installer to set up in later.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Thu Feb 21 2002 - 09:18:08 MST