Subject: Re: filesystem stuff on an 8600
From: pete (pete@linuxfreemail.com)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 16:52:52 MDT
Because it's formatted with Apple's driver; there is no way to add a
partition to a disk without reformatting the disk.
If there was a mountable partition on there, I could choose "erase disk"
from the "special" menu to reformat...but there's not, so I can't :) Also,
if I'd been smart and formatted the disk originally with HDT or
silverlining, I'd be ok...but I wasn't, so I'm screwed.
Of course, my info may be out of date, so I'll try booting from my
Silverlining CD and from a recent MacOS CD with Drive Setup when I get home
just to be sure.
Even if I can solve this specific problem from the MacOS side, I'd like to
figure out how to use utilities like fdisk, pdisk, and mkfs without running
into the problems I described below. So, any suggestions are still quite
welcome!
- pete -
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> From: "Sean O. Denney" <sdenney@cise.ufl.edu>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 17:30:28 -0400 (EDT)
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: filesystem stuff on an 8600
>
> Why don't you just boot from a MacOS CD and format the partition.
>
> --- Sean
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Pete wrote:
>
>> I have 2 internal drives on my G3-upgraded 8600. MacOS 9 starts up from the
>> second partition of one drive; I've deleted the file system from what would
>> be the third. (The first is tiny and insignificant.)
>>
>> YDL 2.0 runs off the second drive.
>>
>> How can I use YDL to put an HFS file system in all that empty space?
>>
>> /sbin/fdisk does not recognize the partitions...it complains about not
>> seeing the right DOS stuff (???)
>>
>> /sbin/pdisk does not exist (???)
>>
>> and if I boot from a RAM disk and use the disk formatting portion of the YDL
>> installer, there is no HFS option. (True, it looks as though bootloader is
>> the same as HFS...but I don't know how to get a file system on there.
>>
>> mkfs -t hfs does not work, apparently there is no HFS support here.
>>
>> Any advice greatly appreciated.
>>
>> - pete -
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