Re: Multi-boot advice.

On Fri, Jul 7, 2000 Ethan Benson  wrote:

On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:52:10AM +0100, Iain Sandoe wrote:

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On Fri, Jul 7, 2000 Ethan Benson wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:38:38AM +0100, Iain Sandoe wrote:

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Yea Hey first to Apple Drive setup (which at least these days will allow
most stuff to be set up) - and then to pdisk - to check it out.

just don't create any linux partitions with apples drive setup, it
won't work.  instead add up the sizes of all the planned linux
parittions and create a placeholder HFS partition with apple drive
setup, then delete it with pdisk and populate the freed space with the
linux and bootstrap partitions.

This is interesting.  I've seen (several times) the comment that the Apple
Drive Setup tool doesn't work for Linux.

However, it certainly did for me (on the Lombard & on a 9600/233)... under
what circumstances does it fail?

every time i tested it the following occured:

* drive setup crashed
* the partition tables were corrupt.

its just good policy to use the native fdisk to create an OS'es
partitions, on intel we must use DOS fdisk to create DOS/Win*
partitions and linux fdisk for linux partitions, same with OpenBSD,
FreeBSD etc.  powerpc is no different.

This is OK for the people on this list.  We are happy with text-only command
line interfaces (hell, I once wrote an entire app in assembler... but I
wouldn't want to do that ever again.)

However, if we want Linux to be extended to a wider audience the kind of
intuitive set up tool (like drive set-up) is going to be essential.

Someone should tell Apple if there's a problem - they seem to be willing to
support (at least) the existence of Linux & other OSs - unlike certain other
companie$

Iain.

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