>
>Hi everyone!
>
>Just tried installing Mandrake 8.2 ppc beta, but when it comes to
>partioning, both in graphical and text mode, it says that:
>There's not enough space for the bootstrap.
>There are no partions on my disk.
>
>Went to the installer-console, and tried fdisk, and it said kindof the same
>thing...
>
>Pdisk however, found all my partions!
>
>Could it be that the installer is using fdisk? In that case: why? Pdisk
>seems to be working alot better!
>
>Been running Debian 3.0 for some time now, but I decided I wanted to try 
>out
>KDE 3.0 and XFree 4.2 and I don't want to wait for debian..
>
>//ernie
>
>Here's a printout from pdisk in MacOS:
>
>Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/ata0.0' (/dev/hda)
>  #:                type name              length   base     ( size )
>  1:    Partition_Filler                        0 @ 0
>  2: Apple_partition_map Apple                 63 @ 1
>  3:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh             54 @ 64
>  4:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh             74 @ 118
>  5:      Apple_FWDriver Macintosh            200 @ 192
>  6:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh            512 @ 392
>  7:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition      512 @ 904
>  8:           Apple_HFS "MacOS"          1193416 @ 7000000  (582.7M)
>  9:           Apple_HFS "Install"         100000 @ 6900000  ( 48.8M)
>10:          Apple_Free Extra            6898584 @ 1416     (  3.3G)
>11:           Apple_HFS "OSX"            8192000 @ 8193416  (  3.9G)
>12:           Apple_HFS "Brutus"        32016384 @ 16385416 ( 15.3G)
>13:           Apple_HFS "Maximus"       32016384 @ 48401800 ( 15.3G)
>14:          Apple_Free                       56 @ 80418184
>
>Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=80418239 (38.3G)
>DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
>Drivers-
>1:  21 @ 64, type=0x701
>2:  34 @ 118, type=0xf8ff
>
it looks like you don't have enough free space(Apple_Free). you only have an 
Apple_Free partition of 56 which is not big enough. try to delete a 
partition(u can use pdisk for this) and try again
mike

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