Re: A newbie partition question
On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:04:35PM +0200, Carlo Cosolo wrote:
> First of all be patient and thnk in advance :)
>
> I'm still trying to install a Debian Potato 2.2 on a 5500/275/64 with a
> PPC603ev and eventually I succeed ;) Nevertheless I'm having some troubles
> with the step of partitioning, 'cause I'm asked numbers of length/base and
> I'm not exactly a technician :)
>
> I've found a tutorial on the Debian manual for PPC with this pattern
>
>
> Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/ide0.0' (/dev/hda)
> #: type name length base ( size )
> 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
> 2: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 64
> 3: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 118
> 4: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 192
> 5: Apple_HFS iMacHD 9510006 @ 704 ( 4.5G)
> 6: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Linux 3145728 @ 9510710 ( 1.5G)
> 7: Apple_Free Extra 10 @ 12656438
>
> Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=12656447 (6.0G)
> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
> Drivers-
> 1: @ 64 for 20, type=0x701
> 2: @ 118 for 33, type=0xf8ff
>
> Okay so far, but what about the swap/boot/linux partitions?
>
> Where can I find a tutorial step by step for cfdisk to correctly partioning
> my hd? I have 3GB free.
Don't use cfdisk, use mac-fdisk instead.
There's a very nice mac-fdisk tutorial, referenced in the very fine installation
manual at the link in my sig, which you really should read,
The tutorial is at penguinppc.org/projects/yaboot/doc/mac-fdisk-basics.shtml
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