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Yeah, those first 5 partitions are only for OS X/9. |
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On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:27:49 +0100, Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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<pjb@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Carl Hudkins writes: |
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> > Hi... |
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> > I've recently acquired a blue G3 (dual-proc, 450MHz) with a 30GB IBM |
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> > DeskStar hard drive. Due to some I/O errors I occasionally receive with |
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> > this drive (even though I've disabled DMA), I've bought a 120GB drive to |
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> > replace it. What I need to know is, when copying everything over to the |
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> > new one, do I need to worry about the small partitions at the beginning |
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> > of the existing drive? Mac-fdisk shows (sorry if this wraps): |
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> Yes, you do need to worry about them. That is, if you ever want to |
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> boot a MacOS or MacOSX. I guess a pure linux system could do with a |
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> simplier partition table. |
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> > /dev/hda |
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> > # type name length base |
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> > ( size ) system |
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> > /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 |
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> > ( 31.5k) Partition map |
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> > /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 54 @ 64 |
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> > ( 27.0k) Driver 4.3 |
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> > /dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 74 @ 118 |
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> > ( 37.0k) Driver 4.3 |
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> > /dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 54 @ 192 |
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> > ( 27.0k) Unknown |
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> > /dev/hda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh 74 @ 246 |
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> > ( 37.0k) Unknown |
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> > /dev/hda6 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 320 |
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> > (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock |
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> I rarely boot MacOSX and never MacOS, so I removed the driver |
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> partitions, but the partition map partition and the bootstrap |
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> partition are still needed. The bootstrap partition is an HFS |
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> partition that contains the yaboot files.My partition table is: |
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> $ mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda |
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> /dev/hda |
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> # type name length base ( size ) system |
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> dump: name /dev/hda len 8 |
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> /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map |
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> /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap eXternal_booter 17408 @ 64 ( 8.5M) NewWorld bootblock |
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> /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root 41943040 @ 17472 ( 20.0G) Linux native |
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> /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 2097152 @ 41960512 ( 1.0G) Linux swap |
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> /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 data 41943040 @ 44057664 ( 20.0G) Linux native |
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> /dev/hda6 Apple_HFS macosx 31209536 @ 86000704 ( 14.9G) HFS |
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> Block size=512, Number of Blocks=117210240 |
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> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 |
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> > This Mac has *no* version of MacOS installed now; I wiped everything out |
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> > when installing Gentoo, except for those first 5 partitions that fdisk |
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> > would not allow me to delete. Are they necessary? |
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> Only for MacOS, so you can delete them. |
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> -- |
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> __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ |
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> The world will now reboot; don't bother saving your artefacts. |
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Man Wit Da Plan. |
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