Subject: Re: Partitioning question
From: Ryan Griffith (rgriffit@csulb.edu)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 16:29:34 MDT
Ok, I'll give it a shot. Thanks Dave, thanks Ed.
Ryan
Ed Jaeger wrote:
> 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
>
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> Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation
> ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com
> http://www.bgcorp.com
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> thorns have roses."
>
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