On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 05:58:47PM -0400, Individual . . wrote: > Hi all! > When I did all the partitioning required for the installation of > Debian, I left a 200 MB chunk to be used as an HFS exchange volume. > Today, after I have got most everything sorted out, I decided to > initialize it, create it, in other words, get it working. HD Setup > wouldnt let me format just that little chunk of the disk, it said it > had to wipe out everything, etc, etc, so I decided to use mac-fdisk > under Linux. I created a new partition with the free space, called it > "exchange" and made it of type Apple_HFS. Upon restarting into MacOS, > however, it did not show up on the desktop and HD Setup does not list > it as one of the partitions (in the List of Volumes it shows upon > startup). I have a feeling there's something I'm missing here: would > someone please point out what it is? > > Thanx. > > Paul
Is there a MacOS driver partition on the disk? If not, you will have to use a third party MacOS utility to install a driver - I do not know if Drive Setup is capable of installing drivers without initializing the entire disk. Tom
