On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 01:05:56PM -0400, Quentin Mason wrote:
> 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.
Yeah sorry you do need to leave those driver partitions. I've never
understood how if you need a driver to read a drive you have to read it
off the drive first.
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