Parition Problem on G3 Installtion

[Derick Centeno]

My memory regarding the G3 is a bit fuzzy but I do recall reading 
somewhere that the G3 cannot recognize drives large drives ranging 
beyond 30G.  This is a limitation of the firmware and so there will 
always be misinformation regarding what it sees and understands.  The 
work around is to treat huge drives such as you are working with and 
paritition them so that they are within a range that G3 systems are 
familiar with -- the size of the drives which were in existence when 
the G3 was in it's prime.  It may turn out that 30G may be that optimal 
size, which means that the G3 could be helped to be more efficient by 
partitioning the 200G drive into chunks 30G wide.

A waste of a hard drive certainly, but older systems have an upper 
bound limit which they are comfortable with.

This is something to consider if Collin's solution doesn't pan out or 
work in solving your difficulty.

On Jan 12, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Collin O'Neill wrote:

> 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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