The disk on my G4 iMac contains an installation of Yellow Dog Linux
4.0.1 and two Apple partitions housing Macos 9 and 10 respectively.
I also have an external Firewire disk, which I had reformatted, leaving
a large unallocated space at the top (with a vague idea of putting
another Linux there).
Now I want to experiment with Gentoo. I have booted the Gentoo 2005.0
Universal disk, specifying "G4 dofirewire", and got this at the first
prompt:
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
I have ascertained from Yellow Dog that the Firewire address is indeed
/dev/sdb (its contents can be listed with pdisk, and it is properly
mounted).
So I tried
mac-fdisk /dev/sdb
but I had no success:
mac-fdisk: can't open file '/dev/sdb' (No medium found)
It seems that the Firewire is more or less recognized (as shown by the
first log line above), but then there is a problem.
Can someone suggest a way to go further, or is my enterprise hopeless?
That is what I would like to know.
Charles
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