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Re: beige g3 - "FIRST DISK" question



On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:56:20PM -0500, adrian crisan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to install woody on a beige g3, 266 some 256 mb and a 4 gig ide hard.
> I start the process via floppy, partition the hard, install the base file, however when is time to make "system
> bootable" it gives me this error:
> 
> "THE REQUIRED ACTION CANNOT BE PERFORMED BECAUSE THE ROOT PARTITION MUST BE ON THE FIRST DISK"
> 
> ... well I'm lost, I have the 4 gig ide with the following partitions:
> 
> /dev/hdd1      Apple_UNIX_SVR2     root     7894463@524353 (3.8G)
> /dev/hdd2      Apple_UNIX_SVR2     swap    524288@64  (256.0M)
> /dev/hdd3     Apple_partition_map   Apple    63@1 (31.5K)
> /dev/hdd4      Apple_Free                Extra    1@524352 (0.5k)
> 
> 
> ... ok, I'm confused what would be the "first disk"  if not hdd1?

What about /dev/hda instead of /dev/hdd?

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Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <hans@sociologi.cjb.net>
A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
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