Apple Disk labels

[Chasecreek Systemhouse]

Under Apple MacOS 9 (hfs+) there are 8 required partitions for the
OpenBoot prom to "see" the disk correctly; I have been placing the FC5
AppleBoot lable on partition 9 and the rest of the standard install
into /dev/hda10 (/boot), /dev/hda11 (swap), and /dev/hda12 (/)

Is there a way to get the partitions onto the disk and not have to
have the 8 "required" Apple labels?  This is an old iMac with the
firewire MoBo; I have re-installed from scratch now about 11 times and
I cannot see any other way to get it to work.

I remember from my Debian Ultrasparc days that the Ultra10 I had would
not boot correctly without the required "SUN" harddisk labels.  Is
this the same deal with the disks used on an Apple?

If so, then this brings up another issue -- how to make the 8 labels
if one does not have the Apple doot CDs...

???
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[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:50 -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
>  If so, then this brings up another issue -- how to make the 8 labels
>  if one does not have the Apple doot CDs... 
parted is capable of handling Apple Macintosh partition tables. fdisk
only handles MS-DOS partition tables.

But the easiest way is to just let anaconda handle it.

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[John Summerfield]

Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote:
>  Under Apple MacOS 9 (hfs+) there are 8 required partitions for the
>  OpenBoot prom to "see" the disk correctly; I have been placing the FC5
>  AppleBoot lable on partition 9 and the rest of the standard install
>  into /dev/hda10 (/boot), /dev/hda11 (swap), and /dev/hda12 (/)
>  
>  Is there a way to get the partitions onto the disk and not have to
>  have the 8 "required" Apple labels?  This is an old iMac with the
>  firewire MoBo; I have re-installed from scratch now about 11 times and
>  I cannot see any other way to get it to work. 
I used to have some 7xxx oldeworlde Powermacs on which I removed all 
Apple partitions and installed Debian. There was no problem in that 
regard with the firmware.


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[Chasecreek Systemhouse]

Thx to all who have replied; I feel I may be doring something wrong
but will keep at it -- it just seemed strange that those 8 Apple
labels "had" to be there...
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