Index: appendices/ppc/macmiscellany.xml
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--- appendices/ppc/macmiscellany.xml (revision 7ee33b9134621e97b1488d7c95a6909a9bcaef9a)
+++ appendices/ppc/macmiscellany.xml (revision 983df6f71b73c0d9bfcda795b41d235000da3eea)
@@ -44,5 +44,5 @@
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
@@ -51,9 +51,12 @@
Mac OS partition(s) after it and (re-)install the Mac OS. The
freespace can then be partitioned using parted or the
- older mac-fdisk.
+ older mac-fdisk. 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.
- The Macintosh resizing and partitioning tools are destructive and will
- delete all data when a partition is resized.
+ The Macintosh resizing and partitioning tools are destructive and may
+ delete all data when a partition is resized, even on unaltered partitions.
+
@@ -66,9 +69,15 @@
are as normal (at least one rootfs, perhaps swap, perhaps others).
- If you follow this advice, partition 1 will be the apple partition
+ 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.
+
+
+ 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.
+ number and there would be some apple driver partitions.