Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@××××.net>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac disk partitions
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:20:55
Message-Id: Pine.BSO.4.58.0704301533270.14640@ida.bway.net
1 Im installing Gentoo on an old B&W G3 Mac which had another distro on it.
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3 According to mac-fdisk it appears to already have a boot partition on it.
4 So can I skip the creation of a boot partition and use the existing one?
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6 Command (? for help): p
7 /dev/sda
8 # type name length base ( size ) system
9 /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
10 /dev/sda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 2048 @ 64 ( 1.0M) NewWorld bootblock
11 /dev/sda3 Apple_Free Extra 17847888 @ 2112 ( 8.5G) Free space
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13 Block size=512, Number of Blocks=17850000
14 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
15 Drivers-
16 1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1
17 2: @ 118 for 36, type=0xffff
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20 (Yes, this Mac has SCSI disks ;-)
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac disk partitions Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Mac disk partitions David Gurvich <david.gurvich@×××××××.net>