On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 04:43:45PM +0200, Martin Breidung wrote: > i've tried on 6,4gb ibm, but the partitions aren't recognized by install... > so i take cfdisk... but if i understand you right there are no reasons that > this didn't work with any ide disks, so i wipe out cfdisk partition and try > anew...
if fact you probably need to redo the partitioning altogether since you have been playing with cfdisk, the way apple partition tables are structured its actually possible for there to be BOTH a valid apple table AND a valid x86 BIOS table on the same disk, the kernel will see the x86 BIOS table first and use that. this would explain why boot-floppies are not seeing any partitions. run: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=64 (this WILL destroy all data on the disk) then run mac-fdisk, and use the `i' command to create a new partition table. again you need to use woody boot-floppies since the mac-fdisk in potato will create a corrupt partition table unless you do things in a very specific manner (documented in mac-fdisk-basics). but if you really want to put macos on this disk too you need to start over and read mac-fdisk-basics first. there is a very specific procedure you must follow for macos and debian to coexist. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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