Oddly, I always started with a new hard drive (saves valuable backup time) and DD'ed the first 5-10 Megs to zap any legacy MS-DOS / ext2 partitions.I never hit the problem, but it was faster than attempting to remove partitions definitions, and rebooting the Ramdisk. Leaving the partitions intact and multibooting is a different story, (I'd recommend that for devices like the CRT emac, which takes ~ 25Minutes to get to the Hard Disk)
Canada/Eastern being typed in has been typical to move from Canada/Mountain on i386.I never noticed it being Canada/Pacific or otherwise for macppc, is that being gotten from OpenFirmware/nvram? -sean > Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 08:31:15 +0200 > From: [email protected] >> If there's a apple partition map, the kernel will use that to fill > entries in the spoofed disklabel Kinda like it reads MBR on i386 and > amd64. > > So you need to wipe the apple partition map to get rid of the HFS > partition(s), and dd is good for that. > > Also, I'm curious, where did the installer get the idea > > that I'm in US/Pacific? IIRC, in the past times, it always > > choose Canada/Eastern. Did the default change or is the > > installer getting "smarter" (somehow)? > It's getting smarter. > -Oto _________________________________________________________________ Attention all humans. We are your photos. Free us. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9666046
