On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 03:12:25AM +0200, Alexander Stagun wrote: > Hi, > > I decided that I don't need that MacOSX partition on my dual boot > ibook anymore. Is it safe to delete that partition (/dev/hda9) and > re-create a linux partition there instead? I am not quite sure, > because the partition map looks quite, uhm, interesting with all that > Apple driver stuff.. > > > ibook01:/home/alex# fdisk -l /dev/hda > # type name ( size ) > /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple ( 31.5k) > /dev/hda2 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh ( 28.0k) > /dev/hda3 Apple_Driver43 Macintosh ( 28.0k) > /dev/hda4 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh ( 28.0k) > /dev/hda5 Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh ( 28.0k) > /dev/hda6 Apple_FWDriver Macintosh (256.0k) > /dev/hda7 Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh (256.0k) > /dev/hda8 Apple_Patches Patch Partition (256.0k) > /dev/hda9 Apple_HFS MacOS X ( 9.9G) > /dev/hda10 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap (800.0k) > /dev/hda11 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap (512.0M) > /dev/hda12 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root ( 8.2G)
Yes, if you won't have any MacOS partitions, you don't need the driver / patch partitions either. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
