>>> 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 >> > > That's what I thought at first glance too, but he does have 3.3GB > free. I > think what's throwing the installer is the arrangement of the > partitions, > with partition 10 having blocks that would normally put it between 7 and > 8.
The thing is that I have installed a 40 GB HD on my old iMac 266, and then I need to have the boot-partions on the first 8 GB. So I've been messing around a bit with the partions and they ended up this way... Anyway, it does work really fine with all mac-stuff, and with all p-disk stuff, both on linux and MacOS and also everything works fine on Debian. So I was surprised when the installer couldn't find anything.... And that's the thing, it's not confused, it can't find anything at all!! Says /dev/hda is empty and has no partions! Kindof scared me at first, thought that it had messed up my entire HD... And don't tell me its just: "You will never install mandrake on your HD" ! //ernie I had an idea... if I could make an alias of pdisk over fdisk, mabye the installer would use pdisk instead and everything would work? But it's on a cd so it's hard to change anything, and you don't have very good access to the console from the installer...
