Subject: Re: filesystem stuff on an 8600
From: Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 15:30:28 MDT
Why don't you just boot from a MacOS CD and format the partition.
--- Sean
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Pete wrote:
> I have 2 internal drives on my G3-upgraded 8600. MacOS 9 starts up from the
> second partition of one drive; I've deleted the file system from what would
> be the third. (The first is tiny and insignificant.)
>
> YDL 2.0 runs off the second drive.
>
> How can I use YDL to put an HFS file system in all that empty space?
>
> /sbin/fdisk does not recognize the partitions...it complains about not
> seeing the right DOS stuff (???)
>
> /sbin/pdisk does not exist (???)
>
> and if I boot from a RAM disk and use the disk formatting portion of the YDL
> installer, there is no HFS option. (True, it looks as though bootloader is
> the same as HFS...but I don't know how to get a file system on there.
>
> mkfs -t hfs does not work, apparently there is no HFS support here.
>
> Any advice greatly appreciated.
>
> - pete -
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