> On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:29:22AM -0700, Sean Fay wrote:
> > So if I only wanted to boot linux I could remove all partitions using MacOS
> > Drive Setup and then have mandrake create the partitions it wants??
>
> Yes.
Can you really delete ALL the partitions -- including the random 4 or 5
apple ones on the front ? I would leave those if I were you. I thought
that open firmware needed something to tell if there is a mac partition
map and which partition to boot from etc... AFAIK only MacOS utilities
will initialise these "driver" partitions, so you will need to boot from a
MacOS CD and initialise the whole drive as "free space" not HFS nor HFS+;
this should put the driver and the other bizarre things on the front,
whilst leaving the "free space" for the Mandrake installer.
The best way to check is to use pdisk -- it is a program like fdisk, and
runs in either linux or macos.
Q.
