Subject: Re: Partition Ordering-YDL+Mac OSX
From: Gordon Neault (gordo-x@shaw.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 10:00:35 MST
It has always been my Linux installation habit to put the bootloader
partition as early as possible on the partition map (the first available
one, if possible; if not then the first available in Linux install) and to
put swap at the end with any free space after that.
I don't think it's particularly important which order the rest of Linux
goes; it always seems to work for me. Of course, with *NIX partitioning
you can "have it your way" to a degree that's truly maddening to
first-time users.
Whether MacOS or Linux, partitions past the 16th virtual partition cannot
be seen/used; this is sometimes a factor when you have both versions of
MacOS on different partitions (preferred over a single OS9/X setup in my
opinion) and want to specifically locate a number of linux directories (or
multiple swap partitions) on individual virtual partitions.
On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 09:02 AM, cbsled@ncia.net wrote:
> A caveat on the suggestion on the YDL site to place YDL in front of any
> Mac OS partitions:
> It won't work with OSX on certain machines, mine being one of them, of
> course.
>
> See: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106235
>
> The OSX installer can't see past the first 8GB on the drive.
> OS 9.x does not have this problem, and OSX can see partitions past 8GB
> once installed, so it looks like the limit (bug) is in the installer.
>
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> Carl Brown cbsled@ncia.net
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