Changeset 073fae8 for BOOK/appendices
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- Jun 9, 2006, 5:15:04 PM (19 years ago)
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- clfs-1.2, clfs-2.1, clfs-3.0.0-systemd, clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit, master, systemd, sysvinit
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BOOK/appendices/ppc/macmiscellany.xml
rb708a6c r073fae8 44 44 machines are unlikely to be able to read or write to macintosh partitions 45 45 (in particular, fdisk does not understand them). The format allows a large 46 number of individual partitions, and the native Mac tools ha vea tendency46 number of individual partitions, and the native Mac tools had a tendency 47 47 to insert small "filler" partitions between the real partitions. Under 48 48 linux, using more than 15 partitions can be problematic (shortage of device … … 51 51 Mac OS partition(s) after it and (re-)install the Mac OS. The 52 52 freespace can then be partitioned using <command>parted</command> or the 53 older <command>mac-fdisk</command>.</para> 53 older <command>mac-fdisk</command>. It seems that recent versions of the 54 Mac tools may no longer insert the filler partitions, so it may be 55 possible to do all the partitioning before installing OSX.</para> 54 56 55 57 <warning> 56 <para>The Macintosh resizing and partitioning tools are destructive and will 57 delete all data when a partition is resized.</para> 58 <para>The Macintosh resizing and partitioning tools are destructive and may 59 delete all data when a partition is resized, even on unaltered partitions. 60 </para> 58 61 </warning> 59 62 … … 66 69 are as normal (at least one rootfs, perhaps swap, perhaps others).</para> 67 70 68 <para>If you follow this advice, partition 1 will be the apple partition 71 <para>According to the lfs-from-osx hint, the Mac partitioning tools 72 can create an apple_bootstrap partition and therefore there is no need 73 to use a Linux CD to create the desired partitions from freespace, but 74 using a Linux CD to create the partitions is a more widely tested approach. 75 </para> 76 77 <para>If you follow this approach, partition 1 will be the apple partition 69 78 map, partition 2 will be the bootstrap at the start of the disk, the 70 79 linux partitions will follow, and then the mac partition(s) - under OSX 71 80 the first mac partition will be number 3, under OS9 it would have a higher 72 number .</para>81 number and there would be some apple driver partitions.</para> 73 82 </listitem> 74 83 </varlistentry>
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