Reclaiming YDL partition for Mac

Fri Dec 27 12:21:01 2002

John,
Sorry, I get the list in digest form and couldn't
reply sooner.
Juan described the process quite well. I would go with
his letter recommendation and hold down the key
combination until you hear 4 startup chimes.
dave
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>    1. Updates (donald jones)
>    2. Re:Reclaiming YDL partition for Mac (David
> Tisdell)
>    3. Re: Reclaiming YDL partition for Mac (The
> Badger)
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>    5. Re: Reclaiming YDL partition for Mac (Juan
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>    6. Re: Updates (Owen Stampflee)
>    7. Re: [yellowdog-announce] Yellow Dog Linux
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> Subject: Updates
> From: donald jones <donjones@nwlink.com>
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> Date: 26 Dec 2002 12:55:35 -0800
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> How do you maintain current copies of software? I
> have run apt-get to
> make sure YDL is up-to-date, but many of the
> packages are behind current
> releases, some significantly so (Mozilla and gcc).
> Are people manually
> downloading source and building updates themselves,
> or waiting until YDL
> provides updates via apt-get? Are there other
> alternatives, or are we up
> a creek until YDL provides updates?
> 
> My primary concern is how do I make sure that I have
> updated software to
> account for security related releases.
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:01:29 -0800 (PST)
> From: David Tisdell <penguintiz@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re:Reclaiming YDL partition for Mac
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> > 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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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 15:11:50 -0600
> Subject: Re: Reclaiming YDL partition for Mac
> From: The Badger <badger@wi.rr.com>
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> 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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