Ethan Benson wrote: > MacOS requires about 8 or more `driver' partitions containing > proprietary Apple disk driver code used only by MacOS (OSX does not > use/require them AFAICT). since parted obviously does not create > these partitions much less installs proprietary code in them MacOS > will simply pretend the disk does not exist and refuse to mount any > HFS partitions on it.
Ooops, yeah. > regardless of whether it has a msdos or empty mac partition table on > it the MacOS partitioner drive setup should be willing to destroy all > existing partition information and create new partitions with all the > macos cruft. i would recommend installing GNU/Linux instead though. Ethan: do you have time to write about this stuff in the Parted manual? i.e. write more in section 5.3 ;-) Thanks! Andrew Clausen
