Installing OS on a HFS+ partition?

Mark Nye yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri, 17 May 2002 17:42:09 -0400


Martin,

Yaboot shouldn't be a problem if you format your main mac partition as HFS+, 
but I think you'll have trouble reading your mac partition from Linux (I 
believe that HFS+ support for Linux is still under development) and I don't 
think that you'll be able to run MOL. ...just my 2 cents!

Mark



On Friday 17 May 2002 03:31 pm, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> i plan to install YDL 2.2 on my G3 B&W 350/6GB HD. I have partioned
> the HD and reinstalled OS9.
>
> The installation-guide tells that one should create a HFS
> (Mac-Standard) partition for the OS9-part of the harddisc. But this
> leads to a 55kB-blocksize in my case as i had to notice. That's a
> enormous waste of space compared to the 4bk-blocks on a HFS+ Patition!
>
> Is there some problem with the yaboot-Bootloader if the OS9 in on a
> HFS+-partition or can i just repartition my disc before i install
> linux?
>
> Regards,
> Martin