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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-partitioning-creatingpartition"> |
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="creatingpartition.html"?> |
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| 11 | <title>Creating a New Partition</title> |
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| 14 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml" |
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| 18 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml" |
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| 22 | href="../common/creatingpartition.xml" |
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| 25 | <para os="c1">Open Firmware and the Mac OS's impose certain requirements on |
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| 26 | partitioning. This is discussed in <xref linkend="appendixe" role="."/>. |
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| 27 | In particular, you cannot use <command>fdisk</command>, you will need an |
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| 28 | <literal>apple_bootstrap</literal> partition, and that should precede any |
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| 29 | OSX partition.</para> |
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| 31 | <para os="d">Start a disk partitioning program such as <command>parted</command> |
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| 32 | with a command line option naming the hard |
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| 33 | disk on which the new partition will be created—for example |
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| 34 | <filename class="devicefile">/dev/hda</filename> for the primary |
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| 35 | Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) disk. Create at least an apple bootstrap |
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| 36 | partition, a Linux native partition, and a swap partition, if needed. Please |
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| 37 | refer to <filename>parted(8)</filename> if you do not yet know how to use the |
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| 38 | programs.</para> |
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| 39 | |
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| 40 | <para os="e">Remember the designation of the new partition (e.g., |
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| 41 | <filename class="devicefile">hda5</filename>). This book will refer to |
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| 42 | this as the CLFS partition. Also remember the designation of the swap |
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| 43 | partition. These names will be needed later for the |
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| 44 | <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file. You will also need to know the |
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| 45 | designation of the apple_bootstrap partition for the <filename>yaboot.conf |
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| 46 | </filename> when you set this up before you run <command>ybin</command>.</para> |
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| 48 | </sect1> |
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