I have a G3 B&W, with two drives. One is 80 Gb and the other is 200Gb.
The 200 Gb is partitioned into two smaller pieces (It's my wife's
machine and she won't let me look to see exactly what the sizes are). I
don't think this is what's causing the problem. Even then, it sounds
like Stephen is installing on a blank disk. The installer should be able
to specify how to partition the entire disk and doesn't need anything
else to decide what to do with it, unless...
Was the drive already partitioned, using the apple utilities? Even if
you are planning to erase the entire drive, in favor of a complete YDL
installation and takeover of the drive, the section of the drive you're
intending to use must be labeled as unused disk space, in order for the
installer to deal with it. At least, that's what YDL 3.0 required. I
suspect that 4 will do the same. I admit that I haven't upgraded, yet.
Olaf
Derick Centeno wrote:
My memory regarding the G3 is a bit fuzzy but I do recall reading
somewhere that the G3 cannot recognize drives large drives ranging
beyond 30G. This is a limitation of the firmware and so there will
always be misinformation regarding what it sees and understands. The
work around is to treat huge drives such as you are working with and
paritition them so that they are within a range that G3 systems are
familiar with -- the size of the drives which were in existence when
the G3 was in it's prime. It may turn out that 30G may be that
optimal size, which means that the G3 could be helped to be more
efficient by partitioning the 200G drive into chunks 30G wide.
A waste of a hard drive certainly, but older systems have an upper
bound limit which they are comfortable with.
This is something to consider if Collin's solution doesn't pan out or
work in solving your difficulty.
On Jan 12, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Collin O'Neill wrote:
How about re-writing the disk label in rescue mode? You can use
parted or fdisk to re-write it.. THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR DATA, so if
you have important data on the disk, back it up first or take another
approach.
1. At the boot prompt, type "linux rescue".
2. Go through the rescue boot procedure. It will probably ask you
what language you want to speak and your keyboard's nationality.
3. I like parted unless fdisk does something special given the
application, so type
"parted [your device here]". Most likely your device is /dev/hda.
4. Type "mklabel", and specify the "mac" partition table type.
5. Type "p" to see what it's done to your disk. You should see a
single 0.31MB partition dedicated to Apple bootstrap.
5. - if you want to specify partitions before installation, this is
the place to do it.
6. Otherwise, type "q" to quit and "exit" to reboot and resume
installation.
-Collin
Stephen Ko wrote:
Hello,
I've spent several hours trying to install 4.0 on G3 but failed due to
partition problem. When I tried to partition 200GB, for some reason,
YDL reserves almost all the space to apple partition map(I think it
was around 190 GB) which only leaves me with 10 GB to play around
with. Neither the autopartition nor the disk druid seems to do the
trick. So I am pretty much stuck with 10 GB which apple bootstrap,
swap, and / must share.
Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thank you,
Stephen.
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