On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 10:16:24PM -0400, Tom Vier wrote: > i'm using hformat in testing/. while linux works fine, mac os 9 ignores > my hformatted partition. drive setup wants to repartition the whole drive. > i've tried dd'ing the whole retrospect boot cd to the partition, and mac os > still doesn't recognize it. does anyone know of a way to bless it properly? > even if it's so i can get the finder to prompt to reinitialize it. i don't > have the ibook restore cd on hand yet (on it's way). however, i'm guessing > it's drive setup will also want to repartition the whole drive.
If you use mac-fdisk to delete the partition and then re-create it as Apple_HFS, then MacOS should see it. Once it gets mounted in MacOS, you can use Erase Disk to format it either as HFS or HFS+. Yes, Drive Setup must do the whole drive. (Silly, huh?) Commercial tools will let you work with a partition. pdisk for MacOS will let you delete and create partitions individually, but not resize them. I mean, it seems to, but MacOS doesn't recognize the changes and you might get some pretty weird results. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance)
