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Hello,
I've an iBook (the blue shell ;), the one wth a G3 300 and 6,4 Go HD.
I tried to install 9.1beta2, but encountered the same problem that formated my 
/home as swap under 8.2 (lol)

pdisk says (same under mdk 8.2 ppc and the installer) :
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[root@ibook root]# pdisk /dev/hda
Edit /dev/hda -
Command (? for help): p

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda'
 #:                type name               length   base     ( size )
 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                  63 @ 1
 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh              54 @ 64
 3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh              74 @ 118
 4:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh              54 @ 192
 5:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh              74 @ 246
 6:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh             512 @ 320
 7:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition       512 @ 832
 8:           Apple_HFS sans titre        6144000 @ 1344     (  2.9G)
 9:           Apple_HFS sans titre 2       204800 @ 6145344  (100.0M)
10:     Apple_Bootstrap untitled            20481 @ 6350144  ( 10.0M)
11:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Home file system  2048822 @ 9422144  (1000.4M)
12:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Swap               262144 @ 11470966 (128.0M)
13:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled          3051519 @ 6370625  (  1.5G)
14:          Apple_Free Extra                  10 @ 11733110

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=11733120 (5.6G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 22, type=0x1
2: @ 118 for 36, type=0xffff
3: @ 192 for 20, type=0x701
4: @ 246 for 33, type=0xf8ff

Command (? for help):
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but the graphical installer get it wrong. It's ok up to the 10th partition, 
but when coming to linux partitions, It sees :
- - hda11 as a 1,4 Go partition (instead of 1000.4M)
- - hda12 as a 1000 Mo partition (instead of 128M of swap)
- - hda13 as a 128 Mo swap partition (instead of 1.5G)

so if I continue that way, it will silently format hda13 (my present /home as 
swap), and put /home on the 128Mo partition. 1.5G of swap is a bit luxury 
isn't it ? ;)

what can I do to help debug this ?

Under my working MDK 8.2 PPC I've this mounted :
[root@ibook root]# mount
/dev/hda11 on / type ext2 (rw,noatime)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda13 on /home type ext2 (rw,noatime)
/mnt/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type supermount 
(ro,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-15)
/dev/hda9 on /mnt/ech type hfs (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43)

so pdisk seems not to be wrong.

I think I can workaround this by telling the installer to put / on hda11, 
/home on hda13 and swap on hda12, but I'm trying not to lose my /home this 
time :p so I'll wait for your ideas !

Thanks in advance

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Jean-Christophe "Jic�" Cardot - cofondateur de http://lea-linux.org
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