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On Monday 30 April 2007 15:36:29 A. Khattri wrote: |
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> Im installing Gentoo on an old B&W G3 Mac which had another distro on it. |
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> According to mac-fdisk it appears to already have a boot partition on it. |
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> So can I skip the creation of a boot partition and use the existing one? |
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> Command (? for help): p |
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> /dev/sda |
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> # type name length base ( |
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> size ) system /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple |
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> 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/sda2 Apple_Bootstrap |
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> untitled 2048 @ 64 ( 1.0M) NewWorld bootblock |
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> /dev/sda3 Apple_Free Extra 17847888 @ 2112 ( |
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> 8.5G) Free space |
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> Block size=512, Number of Blocks=17850000 |
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> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 |
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> Drivers- |
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> 1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1 |
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> 2: @ 118 for 36, type=0xffff |
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> (Yes, this Mac has SCSI disks ;-) |
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> A |
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Quick answer is yes. Only problem is the system is somewhat limited to be |
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compiling everything. That will take forever. I would suggest using a build |
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system for the packages or using a distro with the packages compiled |
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already. |
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David |
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