pdisk

[Mike Abraham]

Thanks Eric, but, I think Page's problem is obtaining
pdisk 0.8 for OS 9. I believe my earlier post should
help resolve that, though.

It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem to suggest
that one use YDL to partition their drive, since the
other problems with the 2.4.n kernel prevent the
version of pdisk that ships with YDL (0.7.n) from
recognizing the drive in the first place.... 

You are correct about OS X, though. That is an option
for those who first install OS X (making sure not to
allocate the entire drive for OS X during that
install).

Or, the Linux community could update the kernel with a
longer IDE recognition timeout....

Still beats Windows, though....

--- "Eric D." <liriodendron@mac.com> wrote:
> keywords: pdisk, OS X, OS 9, YellowDog Linux,
> formatting, sudo.
> 
> Hi Page, Mike & listers:
> 
> pdisk is built into OS X and YDL (it was written for
> mklinux by a programmer
> working for Apple) and is a free download
>
(<ftp://ftp.mklinux.org/pub/mklinux-pre-R1/ppc/MacOS_Utilities/>)
> for OS 9.
> 
> In OS X fire up "Terminal.app" and type (in YDL too
> I presume) 'sudo pdisk'
> You then follow the instructions you have or those
> provided below to
> partition your HD.
> 
> Eric.
> 
> [Post from May 9th, 2002 begins]
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Pete Peters" <ppeters914@attbi.com>
> Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 08:49:19 -0700
> 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
> 
> > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 7:14 AM
> > 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
> >>> reformatted 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 YDL
> > and try deleting the partition that way (using
> your pdisk instructions)?
> > 
> > Thanks for all your help, Eric.
> 
> [end of post from May 9th, 2002]
> 
> 
> Message (June 10th, 2002):
> 
> on 10/6/02 16:16, Mike Abraham at
> mikeabraham2000@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> > Yep. It's tough to find. I just Googled 'pdisk
> mac'
> > and hit the 1st english link. Here's the URL:
> > 
> >
>
http://cantaforda.com/cfcl/eryk/linux/pdisk/index.html
> <snip>
> > Mike
> > 
> > --- page comstock <wurmgirl78@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> does anyone know of a website where i can
> download pdisk? i have found a lot
> >> of how-to websites, but i havent been able to
> find a place to get it. and how
> >> do i go about using in on my ibook? can i run it
> from within os 9 or x? or do
> >> i have to boot to something?
> 
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