Hard disk Partitions

[Bill Mueller]

Thanks Timothy for the info,

I tried your suggestions, and a combination there in, and I still can't get
both types of partitions onto the same disk.  The HFS system seems to need 4
extra partitions starting from the beginning of the disk to be reconized as
an HFS volume.

I can make an HFS partition on a DOS partitioned drive with the hformat, but
can't get it to boot MAC OS because it doesn't reconize the volume.  pdisk
is only reconizing/creating Apple file systems, just as fdisk only does dos.

The end result of this whole escapade is to be able to boot linux or dos.
If boot into linux, to boot into MAC OS using Mac on Linux.  All on the same
disc.

Is there any type of setup where a link or pointer can be used to simulate
the HFS volume/dos volume residing at the beginning of the disk?

-Bill


----- Original Message -----
From: "Timothy A. Seufert" <tas@mindspring.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: Hard disk Partitions


> At 9:23 AM -0700 8/26/02, Bill Mueller wrote:
> >Hello All,
> >
> >I am trying to get control of my hard disk partitions.  I would like
MACOS
> >9.2, Yellow Dog 2.2, and an old DOS partitions to sit on the same disk.
The
> >trick is to have the dos partition on hda1.
> >
> >I've been playing with this a while, and I am stuck.  As far as I can
tell,
> >you are unable to create an HFS partition in Linux (someone please prove
me
> >wrong).
>
> You have to create a partition with custom partition type/name,
> specify Apple_HFS for the type, then use hformat to put a HFS file
> system on it.
>
> >Furthest I got was to define an HFS partition on the last half of
> >the disk with MAC disk utility, then install YDL on the lower half.
Doing
> >this, I can't get fdisk to reconize the partitions to make my dos
partition.
> >
> >Any ideas?
>
> fdisk is only useful for disks with DOS partition tables.  pdisk is
> what you want, it's a program similar to fdisk that works with Mac
> partition tables.  The other tool you'll need is mkdosfs, which
> creates a FAT filesystem on the partition of your choice.
> --
> Tim Seufert
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