On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:11:45PM -0500, Rick Cook wrote: > While waiting for the Debian 2.2 release (and more recently my Debian 2.2 > CDs), > I have installed YellowDog and SuSE on my 7300. This pdisk output peaked my > curiosity, so I looked at the disk that has SuSE on it using fdisk and pdisk: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Disk /dev/sdb: 67 heads, 62 sectors, 1009 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 4154 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 1 3 6200 83 Linux > /dev/sdb2 4 67 132928 82 Linux swap > /dev/sdb3 68 1009 1956534 83 Linux > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# pdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/sdb' > #: type name length base ( size ) > 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 > 2: Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 32 @ 64 > 3: Apple_HFS MacOS 256770 @ 96 (125.4M) > 4: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Root file system 410832 @ 256866 (200.6M) > 5: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Usr file system 2567700 @ 667698 ( 1.2G) > 6: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Unreserved 1 244020 @ 3235398 (119.2M) > 7: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Unreserved 2 400890 @ 3479418 (195.7M) > 8: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Swap 129185 @ 3880308 ( 63.1M) > 9: Apple_HFS MacOS 184561 @ 4009493 ( 90.1M) > 10: Apple_Free Extra 3 @ 4194054 > > Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=4194056 (2.0G) > DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
As Ethan said, the two can coexist. SuSE (lazily, IMO) just uses the PC partition tables; then the kernel (which has x86 partition table support enabled) scans that one first. It's a godawful, unsafe hack - macos will NOT coexist happily with it. Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
