Re: Duh! B) Re: Problems installing Mandrake on a G4 mac

From: C Lund (clund_at_notam02SPAMBLOCK.no)
Date: 12/13/04 

Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:28:04 +0100

In article <1goqbwg.13oubuc18e7gp2N%peter@seahaze.demon.co.uk>,
 peter@seahaze.demon.co.uk (Peter Hayes) wrote:
> C Lund <clund@notam02SPAMBLOCK.no> wrote:
> > > > And only the partition I select in the next step gets wiped?
> > > That's the theory.
> > That's not quite as reassuring as a "yes" would have been.
> I've never had the software go wrong, just operator error...

Made a first stab at installing just now. But the text installer seems
to diverge from the GUI installer when it comes to partitioning.
According to the DrakX guide, the GUI options are

- Use existing partitions
- Erase entire disk
- Use the free space on the Windows partition
- Custom disk partitioning

But the text-only version gives me just two options:

- Erase entire disk
- Custom disk partitioning

I selected the custom option, and the installer/diskdrake presented me
with the following options:

hda1 31KB apple
hda11 14GB hfs
hda13 41GB hfs
hda14 8.5MB apple
hda15 19GB apple
hda2 - 5 28KB apple
hda6 - 8 256KB apple
hda9 1MB apple

There's a similar list for hdb, but I don't want to touch that disk.

Judging by the values above, hda11 is where I've put the old MacOS,
hda13 is the backup partition, and hda15 is where I intend to put
Linux. I don't know what happened to hda12 - I suppose I just forgot
to write it down.

However, before these options appeared, the installer briefly flashed
a notice about root disks (didn't really catch the message). What does
that mean? And why is hda15 listed as "apple"? When I formatted the
drive last week, I used a standard unix format for that partition.

Should I just choose hda15 and move on? Will I also be asked to
selected partitions for usr and so on?

> --
>
> Peter 

-- 
C Lund, www.notam02.no/~clund

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