deinstall YDL
Eric D.
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu May 16 08:47:01 2002
You'll have to use pdisk (see ftp.mklinux.org link for OS 8/9 version; OS X
has pdisk built-in and you'll have to run it with sudo... 'sudo pdisk').
Check out Timothy's text for instructions (it's quite easy & you use the
"offset" (base) and "length" of the Linux partition that you want to nix).
Eric.
-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf
Of Pete Peters
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 8:49 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Cc: 'Eric D.'
Subject: RE: Formatting linux partition
Eric,
Info about Pdisk and using it can be found at the following links;
http://www.cfcl.com/eryk/linux/pdisk/
http://www.mklinux.org/getting_started/preparations/index.html
You can download Pdisk from;
ftp://ftp.mklinux.org/pub/mklinux-pre-R1/ppc/MacOS_Utilities/
Are we having fun yet?
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf
Of Eric D.
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 7:14 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: Formatting linux partition
on 8/5/02 18:38, Timothy A. Seufert at tas@mindspring.com wrote:
> At 4:14 PM -0400 5/8/02, Eric D. wrote:
>> Hello ya'll, is there any way to get a formerly linux partition reformat=
ted
>> as HFS?
>
> Yes.
>
> Using pdisk, delete that partition. Then create it again, using the
> same base and length. When you recreate it, use the uppercase C
> "create partition" command instead of the normal lowercase c. The
> uppercase option lets you specify the partition type (lowercase c
> will always create partitions as "Apple_UNIX_SVR2", which is what you
> want for Linux partitions). Enter "Apple_HFS" (without the quotes)
> as the type, and anything you like for the name.
>
> At this point it's really still a Linux partition, it's just now
> marked as HFS. But that's OK. Just boot MacOS. MacOS will try to
> mount the partition because its type signature in the partition table
> is Apple_HFS, discover that the HFS magic numbers aren't present at
> the beginning of the partition, and then ask you if you want to
> format or eject the unreadable disk. Tell it to format, select HFS
> or HFS+ as you like, and you should be good to go.
Now my next question is:
How do I get to pdisk? I assume I have to be in YDL to run the app, but I
doubt that I will be allowed to format the boot partition.
I have the YDL 2.1 and 2.2 Install CDs and tried booting the 2.1 CD but it
wouldn't let me (failed with some error & said it would restart in 180
seconds (& I wasn't able to command-control-power to restart for the first
time ever (B&W G3, ADB keyboard)... I thought com-ctrl-pwr was a hardware
thing and didn't think software could over-ride it)).
I've mangled the Linux partition (1536 MB) with the installer (trying to
trick it into formatting me one big boot partition). Should I re-install YD=
L
and try deleting the partition that way (using your pdisk instructions)?
Thanks for all your help, Eric.
on 16/5/02 05:32, florian stoeffelmayr at
florian.stoeffelmayr@kfunigraz.ac.at wrote:
> hello
>=20
> please how do you denistall YDL?
>=20
> I have PBG4, the mac OS cds (tried 9 and 8.6) won=B4t boot in yaboot.
> how do you deinstall (YDL or yaboot)??
>=20
> thanks
>=20
> flo