source: partitioning/ppc/creatingpartition.xml@ d0ed88e8

Last change on this file since d0ed88e8 was 983df6f, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 18 years ago

r3903@server (orig r1756): ken | 2006-06-09 17:04:23 -0700
First attempt at making the ppc temporary system bootable, plus related cleanups, particularly for creating partitions.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-partitioning-creatingpartition">
9 <?dbhtml filename="creatingpartition.html"?>
10
11 <title>Creating a New Partition</title>
12
13 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
14 href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
15 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
16
17 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
18 href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
19 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='b'])"/>
20
21 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
22 href="../common/creatingpartition.xml"
23 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c'])"/>
24
25 <para os="c1">Open Firmware and the Mac OS's impose certain requirements on
26 partitioning. This is discussed in <xref linkend="appendixe" role="."/>.
27 In particular, you cannot use <command>fdisk</command>, you will need an
28 <literal>apple_bootstrap</literal> partition, and that should precede any
29 OSX partition.</para>
30
31 <para os="d">Start a disk partitioning program such as <command>parted</command>
32 with a command line option naming the hard
33 disk on which the new partition will be created&mdash;for example
34 <filename class="devicefile">/dev/hda</filename> for the primary
35 Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) disk. Create at least an apple bootstrap
36 partition, a Linux native partition, and a swap partition, if needed. Please
37 refer to <filename>parted(8)</filename> if you do not yet know how to use the
38 programs.</para>
39
40 <para os="e">Remember the designation of the new partition (e.g.,
41 <filename class="devicefile">hda5</filename>). This book will refer to
42 this as the CLFS partition. Also remember the designation of the swap
43 partition. These names will be needed later for the
44 <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file. You will also need to know the
45 designation of the apple_bootstrap partition for the <filename>yaboot.conf
46 </filename> when you set this up before you run <command>ybin</command>.</para>
47
48</sect1>
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