Parted issue on G4 Powerbook

[Euan Maxwell]

Hi there,

I've just fired up my G4 with the DVD iso for FC4.  Once the X graphical
installer loads up and I get to the screen where I can choose to
automatically/manually partition the drive, I run into problems with the
message:

"The parition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition."

If I persist and press ignore, I get another mesage:

"Attempt to read sectors 16-18 outside of partition on /dev/hda"

Persisting further (with manually parition) it shows up my free space as a
parition of type "Foreign".

Basically similar symptoms as those found in this bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=159047

A solution offered there seems to work only if you're doing an NFS install
by symlinking a file into the NFS source location.  I was doing the
install straight from the DVD.  Is there any way to install FC4 on a
PowerBook straight from the DVD at the moment?

I used the Disk Utility to reparition my machine and left the section I
was going to use for FC4 as unparitioned space, with the remainder set up
for Tiger (already installed).

Machine specs are:

PowerBook 12" G4
1.33GHz / 768MB RAM / 60GB HDD

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Euan.

[Colin Charles]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 11:34 +0100, Euan Maxwell wrote:
>  A solution offered there seems to work only if you're doing an
> NFS
>  install
>  by symlinking a file into the NFS source location.  I was doing the
>  install straight from the DVD.  Is there any way to install FC4 on a
>  PowerBook straight from the DVD at the moment? 
Not in your case, short of getting to rename the partition (and I don't
know of a non-destructive way in OS X) to Extra 

If I were you, I'd NFS install my way. Your DVD image is still useful,
you can loopback mount it, and just get the updated parted

parted was fixed, it just didn't make FC-4
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[Paul Nasrat]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 20:45 +1000, Colin Charles wrote:
>  On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 11:34 +0100, Euan Maxwell wrote:
>  > A solution offered there seems to work only if you're doing an NFS
>  > install
>  > by symlinking a file into the NFS source location.  I was doing the
>  > install straight from the DVD.  Is there any way to install FC4 on a
>  > PowerBook straight from the DVD at the moment?
>  
>  Not in your case, short of getting to rename the partition (and I don't
>  know of a non-destructive way in OS X) to Extra  
Well you can boot installer to first screen - switch to tty2

cd /tmp
wget http://people.redhat.com/pnasrat/pdisk
chmod 755 pdisk
./pdisk <disk>
n (Change name)
(freespace partition no)
Extra
w
q

Paul

[Euan Maxwell]

> > Not in your case, short of getting to rename the partition (and I
> don't
> > know of a non-destructive way in OS X) to Extra
>
>  Well you can boot installer to first screen - switch to tty2
>
>  cd /tmp
>  wget http://people.redhat.com/pnasrat/pdisk
>  chmod 755 pdisk
>  ./pdisk <disk>
>  n (Change name)
>  (freespace partition no)
>  Extra
>  w
>  q 
Thanks for your help guys.  I was going to go with an NFS install tonight
but this pdisk fix seems to have worked and the install (direct from the
DVD media) is now underway.

Much appreciated,

Euan.