On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Ernst Persson wrote:
> >>> 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. > > The thing is that I have installed a 40 GB HD on my old iMac 266, and > then I need to have the boot-partions on the first 8 GB. So I've been > messing around a bit with the partions and they ended up this way... > Anyway, it does work really fine with all mac-stuff, and with all p-disk > stuff, both on linux and MacOS and also everything works fine on Debian. > So I was surprised when the installer couldn't find anything.... And > that's the thing, it's not confused, it can't find anything at all!! > Says /dev/hda is empty and has no partions! Kindof scared me at first, > thought that it had messed up my entire HD... > > And don't tell me its just: "You will never install mandrake on your > HD" ! > > //ernie > > I had an idea... if I could make an alias of pdisk over fdisk, mabye the > installer would use pdisk instead and everything would work? But it's on > a cd so it's hard to change anything, and you don't have very good > access to the console from the installer... > Console is on VT2. As I said, it doesn't use pdisk or fdisk. The partioning code is part of the installer, so you would need to adapt the perl code to your needs, or somehow get the partiioning numbering to be sequential. The installer should probably be able to adapt for these types of setups, but I don't know that I'll be able to make that serious of a change at this point. 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
