Reclaiming YDL partition for Mac

[The Badger]

Thanks!  Much appreciated.

What do you mean by "zap the PRAM"?  I am an Intel Linux user for the 
most part and must plead ignorance to some of the Mac lingo.

	John


On Thursday, Dec 26, 2002, at 15:01 America/Chicago, David Tisdell 
wrote:

>
>> 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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