GNU Parted, linuxppc support coming :-)

[Timothy A. Seufert]

At 9:07 PM -0800 7/7/00, Ethan Benson wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 07:37:34AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote:
>>
>>  Hi all,
>>
>>  >> Excuse my ignorance... what FS's do people usually use with MacOS?
>>  >> HFS/HFS+?
>>
>>  Something  wanted to add to a previous mail in the thread:
>>
>>  Don't forget that there are lots of Macs that _absolutely_ need at least
>>  one HFS partition and an Aple partition map on one of there disks,
>>  because that's the only thing the ROM can boot some OS from.
>>
>>  AFAICT, all pre-NewWorld machines are in this case, except maybe some
>>  that can be tweaked to network boot...
>
>oldworld macs this is true i think.

Not completely true.  They do have to have a Mac partition table but
I'm pretty sure you can get away without any HFS partitions if you
use quik to boot.  Granted, that's a pain, but it can be done.

   Tim Seufert

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