Re: The broken fdisk

[Sunnanvind Fenderson <sunnanvind@fenderson.com>]

I wrote it to a CD which I mounted from the shell (for the record, the 
line was "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /target" and copied "cp 
/target/mac-fdisk /sbin" to /sbin. Then I went back to the installation 
ui, and chose "Partition hard disk". I set it up the way I wanted it 
(partition table, bootstrap partition, swap, root-disk, but no mac 
partitions), and selected "w".
I got:

Writing the map destroys what was there before. Is that okay? [n/y]: (I 
selected y)
The partition table has been altered!

Then I got a blinking cursor for a long while, and after that the 
computer restarted itself.
The hard drive seemed repartitioned, I checked with a Mac OS 9 boot 
disk. (But, since I had no means of getting back to debbootstrap, I had 
to reinstall mac OS, re-download the files (linux kernel, root.bin and 
yaboot), make a new yaboot.conf and go at it again. Again I used the 
fdisk from the cd (the mac-fdisk Chris Tillman pointed me to earlier), 
and again the same result after the "w".

Any ideas?
Sue

On Thursday, January 10, 2002, at 04:02 PM, Tim Middelkoop wrote:

> I did it last night, ifconfig and wget are your friend.
> otherwise worked fine.
> tim...
>
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 03:24:53PM +0100, Sunnanvind Fenderson wrote:
> > Chris Tillman wrote:
> > > The current build somehow has a broken-build mac-fdisk. There is a
> > > binary package available on the web at
> > >
> > > http://penguinppc.org/projects/eb/mac-fdisk.tar.gz
> >
> > Great! But how do I access it from the installation? (I tried mounting
> > my mac hd under /target, but it's formated in hfs+.)