pdisk help

[Eric D.]

I'm not sure what you're trying to do (erase & reformat the YDL partition?).

If you have OS X installed, boot into OS X and run pdisk as sudo ("sudo
pdisk" (requires that you have the root password (same as your primary admin
account I think)). You can then do everything you need to with pdisk.

If you have OS 9, you can download a pdisk for it (URL has been posted a few
times recently & can be found in the archives) and run it in OS 9 (it's a
CLUI interface though (identical to the OS X/YDL one)).

How to run it in YDL -- I don't know (never done it). You might be able to
do the sudo trick there too.

Eric.

on 20/5/02 13:19, Chris Saunders at csaunders@cogeco.ca wrote:

> Hello again gentlemen,
> 
> I've been searching all morning, but I have been unable to find any
> helpful information on pdisk.  Here's the problem:
> 
> - boot to single user mode
> - run pdisk
> 
> I can see /dev/disk0 or /dev/rdisk0's partition maps, but I am unable to
> write to either of them - I get the 'The map is not writeable.' error
> message.  Le grr.
> 
> If there is a more appropriate list or URL to find this information
> from, please let me know - hugely frustrated at this point.
> 
> Thanks in advance.