Here's the
situation. I have two G3's, one that's more or less dead due to a partitioning
accident that will take me years of therapy to get over (or a friend who's
mailing me the OS 8.6 install cd so I can fix it) and then there's the second
one.
The other G3 has 2
hard drives, one 7.5gig which is the boot drive with os 8.6, and the other is a
50 gig extra. I want to install PPC 8 on the second drive and have it take up
all the space -- or at least most of it -- and have a dual-boot kind of thing
going on, but here are some conditions which yield the following results during
the install:
Partition scheme on
the extra drive = resulting error message
50 gig HFS = No
valid filesystem to install linux
50 gig HFS+ = No
valid filesystem to install linux
5 gigs HFS, 45 gigs
empty = No valid filesystem to install linux
5 gigs HFS+, 45 gigs
empty = No valid filesystem to install linux
15 gigs HFS, 15 gigs
HFS+, 20 gigs empty = No valid filesystem to install linux
Now, is what I'm
trying to do even possible? Do I need some openfirmware magic to go before it?
CAn I accomplish this on a non-boot disk? Do I need the OS 8.6 install cd to do
this even though I have a working OS on the smaller(boot) drive? Do I need a
voodoo doll of Steve Jobs?
Help,
Michael Snyder
Chief Llamaherder - SnyderCreative
www.SnyderCreative.com
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