On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Michael Marcucio wrote:
> > > >Hi everyone! > > > >Just tried installing Mandrake 8.2 ppc beta, but when it comes to > >partioning, both in graphical and text mode, it says that: > >There's not enough space for the bootstrap. > >There are no partions on my disk. > > > >Went to the installer-console, and tried fdisk, and it said kindof the same > >thing... > > > >Pdisk however, found all my partions! > > > >Could it be that the installer is using fdisk? In that case: why? Pdisk > >seems to be working alot better! > > It doesn't use either one. > >Been running Debian 3.0 for some time now, but I decided I wanted to try > >out > >KDE 3.0 and XFree 4.2 and I don't want to wait for debian.. > > > >//ernie > > > >Here's a printout from pdisk in MacOS: > > > >Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/ata0.0' (/dev/hda) > > #: type name length base ( size ) > > 1: Partition_Filler 0 @ 0 > > 2: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 > > 3: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 64 > > 4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 118 > > 5: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 200 @ 192 > > 6: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 392 > > 7: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 904 > > 8: Apple_HFS "MacOS" 1193416 @ 7000000 (582.7M) > > 9: Apple_HFS "Install" 100000 @ 6900000 ( 48.8M) > >10: Apple_Free Extra 6898584 @ 1416 ( 3.3G) > >11: Apple_HFS "OSX" 8192000 @ 8193416 ( 3.9G) > >12: Apple_HFS "Brutus" 32016384 @ 16385416 ( 15.3G) > >13: Apple_HFS "Maximus" 32016384 @ 48401800 ( 15.3G) > >14: Apple_Free 56 @ 80418184 > > > >Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=80418239 (38.3G) > >DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 > >Drivers- > >1: 21 @ 64, type=0x701 > >2: 34 @ 118, type=0xf8ff > > > it looks like you don't have enough free space(Apple_Free). you only have an > Apple_Free partition of 56 which is not big enough. try to delete a > partition(u can use pdisk for this) and try again > mike > That's what I thought at first glance too, but he does have 3.3GB free. I think what's throwing the installer is the arrangement of the partitions, with partition 10 having blocks that would normally put it between 7 and 8. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
