[Mactel-linux-users] Fwd: Fwd: how to partition hdd with diskutil?

[Felipe S. <do...@gm...>]

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From: Felipe Sere <do...@gm...>
Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Fwd: how to partition hdd with diskutil?
To: Ludovic Rousseau <lud...@gm...>


Partial success.
I have installed Windows, for some stupid reason it also formatted my
120GB Linux partiion to NTFS, but I didn't care about that. My problem
now is, that with Gparted I had to set a boot flag for XP (after the
formatting of ext and my swap it was suddenly gone!) and now it shows
up as EFI System in my GPT, as you can see below. Is there a way to
change this back to some MS type?

Current GPT partition table:
 #      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1             40       409639  EFI System (FAT)
 2         409640     52576295  Mac OS X HFS+
 3       52838440    322303327  Basic Data
 4      322565472    385480031  EFI System (FAT)
 5      385742176    390459783  Linux Swap

Current MBR partition table:
 # A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1              1       409639  ee  EFI Protective
 2         409640     52576295  af  Mac OS X HFS+
 3       52838440    322303327  83  Linux
 4 *    322565472    385480031  0c  FAT32 (LBA)

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Felipe Sere <do...@gm...> wrote:
> So that is my battle plan for this afternoon:
> Use Disk Utilitly to create the partitions as HFS+
> Reformat them with (G)parted
> Install XP
> Install Linux
> I need to get some chocolate first to avoid major frustrations.
> I will report back on success/failure. Might have to write a wiki entry so that
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Ludovic Rousseau
> <lud...@gm...> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Felipe Sere <do...@gm...> wrote:
>>> I'd sure love to do that, but Gparted can't make HSF+ partitions
>>> (correct me if I am wrong) and diskutil is utter CRAP. Disk Utility
>>> (the GUI) is even worse, as it only allows me to make HFS+ partitions.
>>> Which _might_ also be a good thing if I can do stuff "the way I want
>>> to".
>>> I could Disk Utility to make all the partition scheme the way you
>>> described and then use (g)parted to make the Linux ones ext3/xfs/swap
>>> respectively and then the Windows one FAT32. Does this procedure
>>> tamper with the partition order?
>>
>> Just use (g)parted to change the partition type from HFS+ to Linux. I
>> don't know about Windows partition. Maybe (g)parted can be used to
>> change the partition type to FAT32 or something desired by Windows.
>>
>> This would not change the partition order. Just the partition types.
>>
>> bye
>>
>> --
>>  Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
>>
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> Felipe Sere
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