On Thu, Jul 13, BandiPat wrote:
Ok, this brings up a question. Is the partitioning tool in SuSE still not working as it should for an empty drive? You are saying here, if a drive has not been formatted before or wiped of any format, special things have to be done to get the partitioning tool to handle it? Is this the case no matter what the computer, Mac or Pegasus? I am confused with some of this, haven't tried it yet, so no experience with how things are handled.
I used an OS9 formated drive during my 10.1 testing, here "whole disk" worked. It offered the existing MacOS partition for removal and splitted it into boot, root and swap. But for some reason I did not retest the empty disk case. And as a result, it is not working correctly in 10.1. For Pegasos you still need to do manual partitioning with parted.
If I have a Mac and want to wipe everything from the hard drive to install SuSE, can that be done with the partitioning tool as with the i386? I understand, I think, that if you want to do a dual boot, you have to resize with some Mac tool, before installing Linux, because the SuSE tool will not resize as it does with Windows drives? If not, will these be fixed?
HFS resizing does not work due to lack of tools. So for 10.1 its basically the same procedure as every year: to initalize the disk, use MacOS tools or do it manually with pdisk or parted. The expert partitioner can remove and create partitions now, thats new.