Partitioning

[Ben Donovan]

If I don't need a bootstrap partition, can anyone recommend to me how to
partition my 4.3gb drive then?




on 6/4/03 9:27 AM, linuxppc_user@blueyonder.co.uk at
linuxppc_user@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

> I don't know about a Starmax, but I have never used a bootstrap partition=
.
> I'm not sure it's
> necessary on Old Worlds.  I think you might want to point bootX to your /
> (root) partition.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Donovan [mailto:ben@toycar.net]
> Sent: Wed 6/4/2003 2:22 PM
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
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> Subject: Partitioning
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> I=B9m trying to set up YDL on my starmax 3000/240. I have been following th=
e
> instructions in the =B3companion to installing=B2 for single drive multi-boot
> systems. I left the first partition unallocated and the second HFS.
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> After installing bootX and restarting to the installer I tried to partiti=
on
> the disk using the disk druid option, but I couldn=B9t seem to make an =B3App=
le
> bootstrap=B2  partition. If I expand the =B3File system type menu I get the
> options =B3ext2=B2, =B3ext3=B2 and =B3swap=B2.
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> I couldn=B9t figure out how to do it this way so I went back and used the
> automatic partitioning using the free space. But I don=B9t think this creat=
ed a
> bootstrap partition either. The installer then ran, but it wouldn=B9t boot =
after
> that, probably because I couldn=B9t point bootX to the boot partition becau=
se
> there wasn=B9t one.
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> Any Ideas?
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