[ydl-gen] YDL 5 installation on Xserve

[Bill Fink]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Atro Tossavainen wrote:

> To Bill: fdisk has no problem with the external FW drive, but pdisk
> thinks it's got 1 byte blocks and only sees the first 600M out of
> the 160G, and reports it's unable to write to block 1, so that's still
> a bit of a showstopper.

Since fdisk likes it and pdisk doesn't, it might be that it has a
PC style disk partition table rather than a Mac style disk partition
table.  Assuming that this is basically a scratch disk with no
important data on it, you might be able to get around this by
using dd to copy /dev/zero to the first part of the disk and then
run pdisk.  Alternatively you could use MacOS X (perhaps on another
Mac) to reformat the drive.

						-Bill