----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Georg Koss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:43 PM Subject: Re: mac-fdisk trouble on G4 double disk
> Georg Koss wrote: > > > > mac-fdisk wasn't able to recognize my hda-size correct (gave round > > 511GB fo a 10G Drive). > > > > When I run the install menu on official-binary-1, I will be asked to > > initialize /dev/hda1 as swap, dev/hda2 as root and dev/hda3 as what > > ever. > > > > A mac-fdisk from the shell gives me the same output as I wrote for the > > initial mac-fdisk output. > > I thought that there was a way to tell mac-fdisk the correct size of > the disk, overriding the detected size (the size detection bug is > fixed in later versions of mac-fdisk I'm told, but that doesn't help > if you're trying to boot off of those CDs). I know you can at the > point where you intitialize a new partition map, it tells you what > it thinks is the size of the disk, and you can hit return to accept > that or type in what you think is the size. Just look at the boot > messages to see the correct size to type in. i determined the correct number of blocks on installation in this way: cylinders x heads x sectors - 1 and get so the same number of blocks as macos9.1 initialized... i hope it was correct as i got problems on installation... titus
