Frans Pop wrote:
> > He had MacOS X occupying the whole hard disc, so we backuped all data
> > and re-installed MacOS to repartition the disk. The standard MacOS
> > installation procedure created a 32k HFS+ partition, followed by 134 MB
> > free disk space and followed by the real MacOS partition.
> > The yaboot installer complained that 900k would be needed, so we
> > resized the 32k partition to something larger using the 134 megs behind
> > it. This wept the whole partition clean, including the installed MacOS
> > X. If resizing HFS+ partitions is experimental it shouldn't be offered
> > in the installer, I guess.
> > After a reinstall of MacOS X where we created a sufficiently large boot
> > partition everything went fine.
>
> Reassigning to partman for this issue (hope partman-newworld is correct).
> However, as far as I can tell [1] the option to resize should not even be
> offered by partman for hfs partitions. How did you do the resizing?
>
> [1] By looking at the code in:
> partman-partitioning/active_partition/resize/choices
It didn't do anything special like opening a rescue shell or anything
the like; I selected it through the regular dialog(1) based user interface.
My memory has faded about the details, sorry.
Cheers,
Moritz
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