Subject: Re: Install Problem on G3 MiniTower
From: David C. Hacker, DVM (dh55145@alltel.net)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 10:11:29 MDT
You can go into custom install and edit partitions and delete the old linux
partitions wihtout bothering the mac os partitions. THEN REBOOT to read the
partition map correctly and do a regular install and it works like a charm.
For me on my iMac it did anyway.
on 6/4/01 6:45 PM, Neil Tiffin at ntiffin@earthlink.net wrote:
> I have tried several times to install on my G3 and no luck. It does
> not seem to erase the root partition. I had 1.2 installed and just
> wanted to wipe 1.2 away and install 2.0.
>
> Very simple, but no way to do it.
>
> Oh yeah, I have my hard drive partitioned and don't want to erase the
> other Mac partitions. It seems really stupid that there is no option
> to erase the partition and start over.
>
> Neil
> GNU Enterprise
> neilt@gnue.org
> http://www.gnue.org
>
>
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