my partition table.

[Jason Stevens]

It looks like you may have created a UNIX partition (14.8GB) using the
Mac OS X disk utility. That may be the problem. In that case, you would
have to repartition in OS X making the destination disk for Linux "free
space."

On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 14:30, skeetone wrote:
> Because I had some problems installing yellowdog I got recommemded to check
> my partition table...
> 
> /dev/rdisk0  map block size=512
>    #:                 type name                  length      base     (size)
>    1:  Apple_partition_map Apple                    63 @ 1
>    2:       Apple_Driver43*Macintosh                56 @ 64
>    3:       Apple_Driver43*Macintosh                56 @ 120
>    4:     Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh                56 @ 176
>    5:     Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh                56 @ 232
>    6:       Apple_FWDriver Macintosh               512 @ 288
>    7:   Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh               512 @ 800
>    8:        Apple_Patches Patch Partition         512 @ 1312
>    9:      Apple_Bootstrap untitled               2048 @ 1824        (1.0M)
>   10:            Apple_HFS OS X               85760360 @ 31506320   (40.9G)
>   11:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled           30978160 @ 3872       (14.8G)
>   12:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 524288 @ 30982032  (256.0M)
>   13:           Apple_Free Extra                     8 @ 117266680
> 
> Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=117266688
> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
> Drivers-
> 1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1
> 2: @ 120 for 36, type=0xffff
> 3: @ 176 for 21, type=0x701
> 4: @ 232 for 34, type=0xf8ff
> 
> pdisk: can't open file '/dev/rdisk1'  (No such file or directory)
> pdisk: can't open file '/dev/rdisk2'  (No such file or directory)
> pdisk: can't open file '/dev/rdisk3'  (No such file or directory)
> pdisk: can't open file '/dev/rdisk4'  (No such file or directory)
> pdisk: can't open file '/dev/rdisk5'  (No such file or directory)
> pdisk: can't open file '/dev/rdisk6'  (No such file or directory)
> 
> 
> At the 14.8G I want to install Linux.
> Is this all ready to install and stuff or would this need some modification?
> 
> Again tnx a lot! =)
> 
> David.
> 
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