Re: Drive Setup (was Multi-boot)

On Fri, 07 Jul 2000 Hollis Blanchard wrote:

Iain Sandoe wrote:

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On Fri, Jul 7, 2000 Ethan Benson  wrote:

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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.

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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$

I have never had Drive Setup crash on me, not even once. To try to
settle this question (not about stability, but about whether it produces
Linux-acceptable partition maps), I've just used Drive Setup's
unmodified "Preferred LinuxPPC" setting to partition a disk. The Mac OS
is currently installing, and I expect no problems when I install Linux
in 5 minutes.

I'm also going to try it when I get round to the G4 multi-boot install ;-)
Still doing dmasound backport...

will report back.

The only complaint I have with Drive Setup is that it insists on erasing
all partitions on the drive any time you want to make partition changes.
Even newbies wondrously appreciating the beautiful Mac OS widgets in
their partitioning utility will not want to reformat their entire hard
disk.

Yes, we really need a MacOS "Partition Magic" or equivalent.  I wonder if
anyone on the list knows how to do it ;-)

Iain.

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