Re: Swapping hard drive on G3?

Yeah, those first 5 partitions are only for OS X/9.


On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 17:27:49 +0100, Pascal J. Bourguignon
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Carl Hudkins writes:
> > Hi...
> >
> >  I've recently acquired a blue G3 (dual-proc, 450MHz) with a 30GB IBM
> > DeskStar hard drive.  Due to some I/O errors I occasionally receive with
> > this drive (even though I've disabled DMA), I've bought a 120GB drive to
> > replace it.  What I need to know is, when copying everything over to the
> > new one, do I need to worry about the small partitions at the beginning
> > of the existing drive?  Mac-fdisk shows (sorry if this wraps):
> 
> Yes, you do need to worry about them. That is, if you ever want to
> boot a MacOS or MacOSX.  I guess a pure linux system could do with a
> simplier partition table.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > /dev/hda
> >         #                    type name                 length   base
> > ( size )  system
> > /dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                    63 @ 1
> > ( 31.5k)  Partition map
> > /dev/hda2          Apple_Driver43 Macintosh                54 @ 64
> > ( 27.0k)  Driver 4.3
> > /dev/hda3          Apple_Driver43 Macintosh                74 @ 118
> > ( 37.0k)  Driver 4.3
> > /dev/hda4        Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh                54 @ 192
> > ( 27.0k)  Unknown
> > /dev/hda5        Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh                74 @ 246
> > ( 37.0k)  Unknown
> > /dev/hda6         Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap              1600 @ 320
> > (800.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
> 
> I rarely boot MacOSX and never MacOS, so I removed the driver
> partitions, but the partition map partition and the bootstrap
> partition are still needed.  The bootstrap partition is an HFS
> partition that contains the yaboot files.My partition table is:
> 
> $ mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda
> /dev/hda
>         #                    type name                  length   base      ( size )  system
> dump: name /dev/hda len 8
> /dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1         ( 31.5k)  Partition map
> /dev/hda2         Apple_Bootstrap eXternal_booter        17408 @ 64        (  8.5M)  NewWorld bootblock
> /dev/hda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root                41943040 @ 17472     ( 20.0G)  Linux native
> /dev/hda4         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                 2097152 @ 41960512  (  1.0G)  Linux swap
> /dev/hda5         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 data                41943040 @ 44057664  ( 20.0G)  Linux native
> /dev/hda6               Apple_HFS macosx              31209536 @ 86000704  ( 14.9G)  HFS
> 
> Block size=512, Number of Blocks=117210240
> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
> 
> 
> >  This Mac has *no* version of MacOS installed now; I wiped everything out
> > when installing Gentoo, except for those first 5 partitions that fdisk
> > would not allow me to delete.  Are they necessary?
> 
> Only for MacOS, so you can delete them.
> 
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
> The world will now reboot; don't bother saving your artefacts.
> 
> 
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