Subject: RE: questions about mac partitions...
From: Pete Peters (ppeters914@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 15:34:51 MST
Kray,
You can use Drive Setup to make your partitions, but you cannot use it to
resize existing partitions like Partition Magic on Intel PCs. Drive Setup
does the equivalent of FDISK and FORMAT, which is called PARTITION AND
INITIALIZE on the Mac.
That said, I think I remember some brave folks using pdisk to repartition
their non-MacOS partitions. Scary stuff. Make sure you have anything you
want to keep backed up before you try that. You also didn't tell us how your
hard drive is currently partitioned. It might be fine as it is.
And, of course, did you search the archives? Probably a million hits (and
opinions, lol) on how-to partition one's hard drive. Having two 2GB drives,
it's a no-brainer for me; one HFS for MacOS, the other / and swap for YDL.
Looking forward to hearing more on your MacSlack Project. Keep us
posted......
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Mesler [mailto:kraylus@airmail.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 2:15 PM
To: YDL Mail List
Subject: questions about mac partitions...
ok, im new to this as most of you may already know. im slowly but surely
learning how the mac hardware works.
what i originally did (since i was too lazy to learn) was have the YDL
install wipe my HD and i created the partitions it said to in the manual.
however, once i realized the my freakin modem didn't want to work, i was
forced to switch back to macOS until i could fix that.
i've decided to dual-boot as i can still work on things that way. is there a
certain way the partitions need to be set? it's a 20gb HD on the mid-summer
2001 iMacs (indigo 500MHz, 192mb ram).
can i use drive setup to make custom partitions? i didnt see an option for
that. if i resize an existing partition will it erase the date thats on it?
i know that most partition progs i worked with on PCs didnt, but ive heard
different things for macs.
thanks all,
R.L. Mesler <Kraylus>
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