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> On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 15:56 +0200, Vince wrote:
>>          Hi,
>>      I have read archives osimplyt but I must say I'm pretty confused
>> with what I need to do regarding the message: The partitLinux beginner
>> region doesn't occupy the entire partition. Let me explain my
>> configuration. I own a Powerbook 17" 1Ghz first generation. I
>> partitionned drive with Disk Utility of Tiger to get two partitions,
>> first one I installed Tiger on it, and second one free. Once finished
>> installation I restart with Fedora Core 4 boot CD and I start
>> Installation and as soon as Keyboard setup I get the error as
>> indicated above. If I switch to console mode, when I try fdisk /dev/
>> hda it complains that drive doesn't have a correct label !!
>>      So what do I need to do exactly to get it working and be able to
>> install ?
>>          Thanks in advance for your clear explanations.
>>
>
> This is a known bug can you try with:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/clumens/mac-parted-update/updates.img
>
> Take the updates.img and use dd to write it to a USB key, then use
> that with "linux updates" at the yaboot boot: prompt.
>
> You will need to dd it to the entire device,
> so make sure you backup whatever may be on the USB drive first.
> You can dosomething like this:
>
> dd if=updates.img of=/dev/sda
>
> Replace /dev/sda with the name of your USB key drive, though.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163263
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159047
>
> Paul


I thought the solution was to siply name the unnamed partitions with
parted and use pdisk, not fdisk. Is there anyway we can all agree on the
best route for this problem?
What works the best and can be accomplished by the average linux begginer.
I'm stuck in the 90s and still don't have a usb drive :-)

how to get pdisk - taken from
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=159047

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)
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