Changeset 983df6f for appendices/ppc

Timestamp:

Jun 9, 2006, 5:15:04 PM (18 years ago)

Author:

Jim Gifford <clfs@…>

Children:

1e3f8a7

Parents:

d0fd0fd

Message:

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.

File:

• appendices/ppc/macmiscellany.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

appendices/ppc/macmiscellany.xml

@@ -44 +44 @@
         machines are unlikely to be able to read or write to macintosh partitions
         (in particular, fdisk does not understand them). The format allows a large
-        number of individual partitions, and the native Mac tools have a tendency
+        number of individual partitions, and the native Mac tools had a tendency
         to insert small "filler" partitions between the real partitions. Under
         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
         freespace can then be partitioned using <command>parted</command> or the
-        older <command>mac-fdisk</command>.</para>
+        older <command>mac-fdisk</command>.  It seems that recent versions of the
+        Mac tools may no longer insert the filler partitions, so it may be
+        possible to do all the partitioning before installing OSX.</para>
 
         <warning>
-        <para>The Macintosh resizing and partitioning tools are destructive and will
-        delete all data when a partition is resized.</para>
+        <para>The Macintosh resizing and partitioning tools are destructive and may
+        delete all data when a partition is resized, even on unaltered partitions.
+        </para>
         </warning>
 
@@ -66 +69 @@
         are as normal (at least one rootfs, perhaps swap, perhaps others).</para>
 
-        <para>If you follow this advice, partition 1 will be the apple partition
+        <para>According to the lfs-from-osx hint, the Mac partitioning tools
+        can create an apple_bootstrap partition and therefore there is no need
+        to use a Linux CD to create the desired partitions from freespace, but
+        using a Linux CD to create the partitions is a more widely tested approach.
+        </para>
+
+        <para>If you follow this approach, partition 1 will be the apple partition
         map, partition 2 will be the bootstrap at the start of the disk, the
         linux partitions will follow, and then the mac partition(s) - under OSX
         the first mac partition will be number 3, under OS9 it would have a higher
-        number.</para>
+        number and there would be some apple driver partitions.</para>
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     </varlistentry>