Re: Deleted OSX installing Debian powerpc on a blue and white G3 with ide drives
Hi,
On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Thedore Knab wrote:
> I having trouble.
>
> How do I clean up the partition table on a powerpc install ?
>
> I have a G3 MAC that is blue and white.
> It says PowerPC G3 on the back.
> It has 2 IDE drives inside I think ( one is a Quantem fireball )
>
> Boot message after holding the 'c' key down:
>
> Welcome to yboot version 0.9
> Wrong Partion 1 signiture
> Config file read, 613 bytes
> Debian GNU/ Linux Power PC (potato)
>
> boot: install
>
> partition harddrive
> goes into fdisk
>
> fdisk typesname length base size system
> /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 31.5K partionmap
> /dev/hda2 Apple_Free Apple 80022536 @64 30.2G Freesapce
>
AFAIK this is the cleanest partition table you can get on a mac. The first
partition is the table itself. The second partiton is a fake one. You
should be able to create Linux partitions now, using mac-fdisk.
In order to do so, start mac-fdisk, hit 'c' and create the desired
partition. After that you have to make another (small) partition for swap
space.
But powerpc related questions are better answered in debian-powerpc list.
Greetz,
Sebastiaan
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