partitioning questions

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Dave:
Here is a link to a TSS page which you really do want to read before  
going any farther:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/installation/ 
guide2.2.shtml#install

Red Hat is useful sometimes but remember they couldn't care less about  
OS 9 or other non-PC partitioning schemes so the likely hood of you  
finding anything other than references to detailed applications in  
Linux is really, really remote.  In other words, you are in a Apple  
PowerPC universe and those are the only references which are going to  
be helpful.  If you wish to learn about details regarding creating  
mount points within Linux and so on that is fine to use Red Hat but  
they will not tell you what a MacOS partition looks like within Linux  
using any application like pdisk or parted (partition editor).  The  
page I found, created by TSS the makers of YDL, will!  That's what you  
need.

Attention: Although the page refers to YDL 2.2, the partitioning and  
mount point instructions are consistent across all versions of YDL for  
Macs.  This will continue until Apple finally actually switches to  
Intell and then everyone must consider to either stay with PowerPC  
systems and move up to Genesi/Pegasos hardware or follow Apple or just  
throw up one's hands and use PCs or Sun's or whatever else is out  
there.  May a HAL 2000 anyone? :-)

Oh yes... I forgot.  After Apple switches to Intel, then maybe Red Hat  
may show an interest in serving the users of the New Intel based Macs  
who also want to use Linux.
That however will be a different list, probably not this one.

Best wishes...

On Aug 8, 2005, at 5:03 PM, David Froseth wrote:

> Thanks Derick for the quick response.  It helped.  From now on I will  
> only do this critical setup manually.  More questions.  I understand  
> that the untitled spaces are linux partitions that OS X does not  
> recognize.  Initially when I tried to manually input the partition  
> info I was asked for a mount point.  The manual partitioning would not  
> continue unless I fill this in.  Page 5 of the "A Companion to Install  
> YDL" does not tell you what to do.  I want to make sure I use up all  
> of the free space and also put the linux partitions in front of the OS  
> X and OS 9 partitions.  Any explaination on how to control  the spot  
> on the hard drive where the partitions reside?  Thanks for any advice.  
>  I found some disk druid tutorials on the net which are geared to Red  
> Hat,  I will study them to see if I can figure this out more.  Thanks  
> again.
>
> Dave