Claus wrote: > My question regarding parted is whether it's possible > to write an Apple partion map on the HD when it's not > in an Apple but a i86 notebook or desktop.
Yes, it should be possible. I haven't been able to test it (I only have x86), but I'm interested if it doesn't work! > would an apple computer accept these HD (generated with > i86-parted on a duron with 'mklabel mac'): Should do. > Verwende /dev/hdc > Warnung: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hdc is > 4200/16/63. Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at > 503.999M. You should check that this matches the BIOS geometry > before using this program. > (parted) p > Disk geometry for /dev/hdc: 0.000-2067.187 megabytes > Disk label type: mac > Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags > 1 0.000 0.031 Apple > (parted) q Looks good Andrew Clausen
