> >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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