Parition Problem on G3 Installtion

[Collin O'Neill]

How about re-writing the disk label in rescue mode? You can use parted 
or fdisk to re-write it.. THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR DATA, so if you have 
important data on the disk, back it up first or take another approach.

1. At the boot prompt, type "linux rescue".
2. Go through the rescue boot procedure.  It will probably ask you what 
language you want to speak and your keyboard's nationality.
3. I like parted unless fdisk does something special given the 
application, so type
"parted [your device here]".  Most likely your device is /dev/hda.
4. Type "mklabel", and specify the "mac" partition table type.
5. Type "p" to see what it's done to your disk.  You should see a single 
0.31MB partition dedicated to Apple bootstrap.
5. - if you want to specify partitions before installation, this is the 
place to do it.
6. Otherwise, type "q" to quit and "exit" to reboot and resume installation.

-Collin

Stephen Ko wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've spent several hours trying to install 4.0 on G3 but failed due to
>partition problem. When I tried to partition 200GB, for some reason,
>YDL reserves almost all the space to apple partition map(I think it
>was around 190 GB) which only leaves me with 10 GB to play around
>with. Neither the autopartition nor the disk druid seems to do the
>trick. So I am pretty much stuck with 10 GB which apple bootstrap,
>swap, and / must share.
>
>Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong? 
>
>Thank you,
>Stephen.
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