On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 12:23:39PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > I'm trying to find the way to install LinuxPPC or Debian on this machine, so > > first of all I've to format one partition with pdisk. > > But here is its output: > > > > Top level command (? for help): L > > ATAPI - unit not ready > > pdisk: can't open file '/dev/ata0.0' > > ATA - couldn't get info > > pdisk: can't open file '/dev/ata0.1' > > ATA - couldn't get info > > pdisk: can't open file '/dev/ata1.0' > > ATA - couldn't get info > > pdisk: can't open file '/dev/ata1.1' > > How about just using Drive Setup to reserve some space for Linux, and > partition from the Debian installer? Apple may have changed the disk API > in MacOS 9, and the MacOS version of pdisk may well predate OS 9. i think the macos version of pdisk is indeed broken. one thing to note if you have this many disks then why not dedicate one entirely to GNU/Linux? in that case there is no need to do anything with apple's tools, just create an empty partition table with your 800K Apple_Bootstrap partition and the debian partitions. see my partitioning doc at http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/doc/ for help with partitioning. (also at http://www.penguinppc.org/usr/ybin/doc/) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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