After hours of wrestling with the partition issue, I finally installed YDL on 200GB HD. Parition was taken care of by Ubuntu installation. Once that was done I was able to freely modify the partition table using disk druid. I followed the YDL installation guide regarding the partition scheme: 1. Apple BootStrap (hda1) 2. Swap(hda2) 3. /(root) at hda3.
I am also happy to report that all of 200GB is available for usage. Thanks all to who responded to my original message :-) Stephen. On 1/13/06, Collin O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm interested to know if you tried either parted or fdisk and what errors > or results did it give you? Did they still spit back only 30G (or 32G I > think is the old hardware limit) of space? I have to agree I've found Ubuntu > to be more forgiving with older hardware - both on the Mac and Wintel > hardware. But YDL/Fedora/Red Hat's just easier to manage for servers, > particularly with the great Yellowdog Update Manager. > > -C > > Stephen Ko wrote: > I just couldn't figure out a way to partition the HD with YDL but the > good news is that I popped in Ubuntu disc and it partitioned it for me > without a hitch. Now I just have one more question, what boot command > do I need to use to enable network install instead of using the CDROM? > > Thank you again, > Stephen. > > On 1/13/06, Derick Centeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Olaf: > Not everyone is so generous as to share the humorous side of being in a > relationship. I had to read what you wrote several times before I > realized I was reading something which surely would have been included > in an episode of "I Love Lucy" if the show were updated for the modern > era. > > You probably already have an idea that Apple's software didn't and > doesn't partition the complete 80G without leaving some of it unused. > Whatever the largest portion is used could be the top end of what a G3 > can understand. Without going through a long protracted 20 questions > game, merely request temporary/time-limited root access say for 10 > minutes or access which allows you to invoke sudo. This being possible > you should have no trouble with running pdisk under sudo. > > Here's how it worked under Panther: > > arakus:~ aguilarojo$ sudo pdisk /dev/rdisk0 -dump > /dev/rdisk0 map block size=512 > #: type name length > base ( size ) > 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 > 2: Apple_Free Extra 262144 @ 64 > (128.0M) > 3: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 147640832 @ 262208 > ( 70.4G) > 4: Apple_HFS eDrive 8398432 @ 147903040 ( > 4.0G) > 5: Apple_Free Extra 16 @ > 156301472 > > Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 > DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 > > arakus:~ aguilarojo$ > > The command in Linux would be similar; there may not be a dump command. > You could always do pdisk -h or man pdisk or info pdisk for help. You > probably already know about pdisk and the above however, this is all > just a prelude to getting the information regarding how the large > (200G) disk is partitioned so that the top limit of G3 firmware can be > verified/discovered in a quick and convenient, ready at hand manner. > If it is such that going through whatever process ... is not worth it, > then consider that the subject could become an essential one as you > continue to use the G3 ... you may need to look this matter up > regarding what that top limit is. This is exactly the kind of > information which gets harder to find as time moves forward and could > be a useful clue regarding when it may be time to move beyond the G3. > > Best wishes... > > On Jan 13, 2006, at 1:14 AM, Olaf Olson wrote: > > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > > > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
