installing OS X from within MoL

[stuporglue]

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 20:20:49 +0200, Joost Kremers
<joostkremers at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> hi list,
> 
> i have an iBook G3 running slackware. i used to have OS X on a second
> partition, which at the time ran fine both when booted by itself and within
> MoL. Then i blew away that partition to try out CRUX/PPC. yesterday, i
> tried reinstalling OS X on that partition, but i had some problems with
> it. the disk manager reported an empty disk of 12.6GB, which is the size of
> the OS X/CRUX partition. i then figured i could safely proceed to form one
> partition on it, which would then be used to install OS X. but for some
> reason, after forming the one partition, the disk was suddenly 27GB, which
> is (almost) the size of my entire hard disk. big oops. i broke off the
> installation, booted from the CRUX install cd and recreated the old
> partition table. luckily, i was still able to boot into slackware.
> 
> then i tried to run the OS X installer from within MoL. this seemed to go
> fine, and the disk manager seemed to see a disk of 27GB containing another
> disk of 12.6GB.
> 
> now my question: if i proceed to install, will it work properly? that is,
> is there any chance of my slackware partition (from which MoL is running)
> being accidentally destroyed? i figure MoL is smart enough to fool the OS X
> installer into thinking it only has the 12.6GB, but i kinda really wanna be
> sure...
> 
> another question: if OS X is installed from within MoL, will it be able to
> boot by itself, i.e., without MoL?
> 
> TIA

I seem to remember that it won't be able to. However, you should be
able to create an HFS+ partition from within slackware. In gentoo, I
think it's called hfstools or something. It should produce a program
called mkfs.hfsplus.

That's what I'd try.

~Michael