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Re: Newbie/Novice Question



On  29 May, this message from Fred Heitkamp echoed through cyberspace:
>> Hmm no, the drivers play not role here... Ah wait,. you mean a drive
>> partitioned with DOS partitions, not Apple partitions? That would indeed
> 
> Yep.
> 
>> probably be seen as uninitialized by MacOS. But then again I like beeing
>> able to partition by block, not by some random braindead CHS scheme....
>> And you can initialize a drive with an Apple partition map without
>> adding all those little Apple driver partitions, and it would also be
>> left alone by MacOS.
> 
> How do you initialize without the little Apple driver partitions?
> Can you do that without reformating the existing partitons (ext2)?

Either initialize from MacOS and then delete unused partitions from
Linux, or initialize a new partition map from Linux straight away.
mac-fdisk is your friend...

Cheers

Michel

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