Don't know what help to ask for... Resolved so damn fast!!!

[Keith Johnson]

Thanks for the directions guys... now I have another stupid newbie quesiton:

When with the Updated ISOs be available from Yellow Dog?

I noticed that Dan said that the proper pdisk would be in the ISOs soon, and
that was back in May.

But I also noticed that the ISOs that Yellow Dog has up on their FTP site
are the same as the ones I got back in May...

Thanks,

Keith... 



> From: "Keith Johnson" <westcoastkeith@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 20:11:50 -0800
> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Subject: RE: Don't know what help to ask for... Resolved so damn fast!!!
> 
>>> Apologies for not searching the list before asking this, but I don't
>>> even know what to search for. I don't know where the problem started,
>>> nor what it is.
> 
>> [big snip]
> 
>> This sounds just like what happened to me when I fell victim to the
>> dual drive problem. Do you by chance have two drives? If you do, go to
>> this page <http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/> and scroll down to
>> where it says, "Lost Mac OS & have 2 drives?".
> 
> This looks exactly like what happened to me. I have 4 physical hard drives
> in my poor little computer. hda is an 80gig drive that has the OSX partition
> on it. hdb is a 40gig drive that has 3 HFS+ partitions (for various crap)
> and 20gigs that I set aside for Sirius. The other 2 drives are 36gig SCSI
> drives connected to an Adaptec 39160 PCI card to house my games and data.
> 
> Now, all I have to do is figure out how to boot into Linux, and then I'll do
> ok. Currently, I'm thinking of booting from the install CD#1. Is there an
> easier way? Looks like I've got some reading to do.
> 
> Thanks for the swift reply guys!
> 
> Keith
> 
> ...ok, I've booted to the Sirius install CD#1, and I've gotten to the
> partitioning part. I clicked on Disk Druid (for kicks) and got this error
> message:
> 
> Partition map has no partition map entry
> Fix/Cancel
> 
> Hitting fix gets this message
> 
> Partition table had unreadable blah blah... create new (erase data?)
> 
> Going into pdisk (the old one), I get the following partition tables for hda
> and hdb:
> 
> hda:
> 
> #    type              name               blah   blah
> 1 Apple_Bootstrap      Apple
> 2 Apple_Driver_ATA     Macintosh
> 3 Apple_Driver_ATA     Macintosh
> 4 Apple_Driver_|OKit   Macintosh
> 5 Apple_Patches        Patch Partition
> 6 Apple_HFS            "OS X"
> 7 Apple_Free           Extra
> 
> 
> hdb:
> 
> #                type  name               blah   blah
> 1 Apple_partition_map  Apple
> 2 Apple_Driver_ATA     Macintosh
> 3 Apple_Driver_ATA     Macintosh
> 4 Apple_Driver_|OKit   Macintosh
> 5 Apple_Patches        Patch Partition
> 6 Apple_HFS            "Matrix"
> 7 Apple_Bootstrap      bootstrap
> 8 Apple_UNIX_SVR2      swap
> 9 Apple_UNIX_SVR2      untitled
> 10 Apple_Free          Extra
> 11 Apple_HFS           "Linux"
> 12 Apple_HFS           "Sirius"
> 
> 
> 
> So I'm wondering why hdb7 is a bootstrap partition, if this configuration is
> ok, and if not, how do I fix it?
> 
> Guidance would be appreciated.
> 
> k
> 
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