Reclaiming YDL partition for Mac
David Tisdell
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Dec 26 14:00:01 2002
> I need to wipe out my YDL installation and reformat
> the partitions for
> Mac OS X so that I have enough space to get Oracle's
> 9i R2 Mac Beta on
> this machine. I'd like to do this in such a way
> that I do not destroy
> my Mac OS X installation that already exists on the
> same drive.
>
> How can this be done? It seems like the Disk
> Utility for Mac does not
> see the YDL partitions. Can I do this with fdisk?
> Has anyone done
> this successfully?
>
> I also expect there will be a need to modify the
> boot loader?
>
> Thanks,
> John
If you get a copy of FWB hard disk toolkit, you can
safely remove the Linux partition and create an HFS+
partition without damaging other partitions.
Zap the PRAM and that will reset open firmware.
Dave
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