[GLLUG] Mandrake 9.1/PPC

[Sean]

It probably need to be flagged as HFS+ or HFS, not sure if it actually 
needs to be formatted or not as such or not. 

Your best bet might be to do a dual boot machine and use Apple Disk 
Utility to format the Ext2 partitions then just use the existing layout.




On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Mike Szumlinski wrote:

> Well, I can now see the bootstrap partition that it says it needs, but 
> it can't be formatted to fit whatever info is needed.  I'm about to 
> give up on this.  I don't have a cd around that has pdisk and on OS on 
> it, I was hoping drak format (or whatever its called) would do it for 
> me.
> On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 12:50 PM, Sean wrote:
> 
> > Did you try leaving a 1M of free space at the beginning of the disk?
> > before your first partition? If that doesnt work then try an hfs
> > partition. BootX is essentially a small Blessed System file that lives 
> > on
> > its own partition.
> >
> > Also use like pdisk/fdisk to make sure there arent any extra partitions
> > floating around, HFS seems to like to put drivers and stuff on 
> > partitions.
> 
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