[CLUE-Tech] OldWorld G3 help

[David Anselmi]

Francis Maier wrote:
> Thanks for the responses so far, folks, but I'm still flummoxed about my
> partitioning problem.  What am I doing wrong?  Why won't Debian
> recognize my UFS partitions?  Should I make them free space instead of
> Unix format?  Do I have to reformmat the whole disk and start again?

UFS seems like a filesystem type to me, so it should be irrelevant to 
partitioning the disk.  Any particular reason you want to use that?

What do you mean that Debian won't recognize them?  IIRC (on a PC 
anyway) it runs cfdisk to partition, then for each partition you are 
asked for a mount point, fs type, and so on.  It may skip those marked 
UFS if it doesn't recognize them, but the partitioning should be possible.

What program runs when you select the partition step?  If it can't read 
your partition table, you can try something else (the 2nd virtual 
console is a shell, so you can run fdisk or whatever else is there).

You don't have to reformat anything (well, maybe the UFS, but you don't 
have anything there yet, do you?)  As long as you leave the partitions 
the same size all should be well.  If you can't convince any of Debian's 
partitioners to work, try the OSX ones (pdisk maybe?) and see if you can 
change the partition type to something Debian recognizes.  You'll get 
the option to format them later which should make it more clear what is 
supported.

Sorry if this is a little scattered, I don't know much about PPC either.

Dave