Re: 3-way boot? (was: OF reset ?)
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:53:54PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:00:47AM -0800, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
> >
> > Okay, so I now have Debian installed on a 2G parition, followed by a 5GB
> > Apple_UFS partition (created by Disk Setup) followed by a HFS+ partition
> > with Classic MacOS installed. When I boot the MacOS X installer off the
> > CD, it only offers me the Classic parition to install on, ignoring the 5GB
> > of space reserved for it. Should I have *not* marked the space for OS X
> > as Apple_UFS? Do I need to start over and repartition at this point? Or
> > is there some way to get the OSX installer to notice the empty partition?
>
> this used to work in the beta, but in the final version it does not
> accept partitions created by Drive setup, you must use OSX's drive
> setup to make that partition. i think it works basically the same as
> MacOS' so follow the same procedure. in the beta it deleted the UFS
> partition and created its own bootstrap partitions anda new UFS
> partition in the remaining space.
Er, what worked for me anyways was in MacOS, I did all the partitioning,
and made the To Be OSX volume, HFS+. Then in the OSX installer, I formatted
it as UFS. Then OSX went and split that up into a few more for its own use.
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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