Subject: Re: Partitioning question
From: Ed Jaeger (ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 16:03:32 MDT
Sounds like you got the correct error messages. Skip pdisk on the next
install iteration & you should be set.
Ryan Griffith wrote:
>
> Ok, I have an iMac DVSE that I am trying to install YDL on. I have
> partitioned the hard drive this way: 2G for MacOS which is of the type
> MacOS Extended and about 10G unallocated for linux. When I boot from
> the installer, before the welcome screen comes up I get the message:
> "wrong partition, 1 signature." It then lets me continue as normal and
> I can proceed to make the partitions with pdisk: /,/usr,/home and swap.
> Everything works fine until I try to save the partition map. When I
> type "w" I get the message: "pdisk: Reread of partition table failed
> (Device or resource busy)". When I reboot and check the partitions
> again, they are all there and of the type "Apple_UNIX_SVR2". So it
> looks like they were written after all. Does anyone have any ideas on
> this? Thanks!
>
> RG
-- Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com http://www.bgcorp.com --- "You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."- Tom Wilson
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