Subject: Re: Partitioning question
From: John Price (jprice@floop.com)
Date: Mon May 15 2000 - 16:58:29 MDT
We got the same thing. Since the partitions were there we ignored it
and went on to install successfully.
~John Price~
jprice@floop.com
http://www.floop.com
On Mon, 15 May 2000, 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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