partitioning problem (fixed)

eniac · Last edited by eniac on Fri Oct 29, 2004 1:55 pm; edited 1 time in total

After installing gentoo on my ibook, I wanted to install MacOSX on the space that was left. After booting the installtion disk, it was unable to find any partition. I could have used the disk utility but then it would have removed all my partition, which is not what I want.
So I gave mac-fdisk an other try, I tryed to delete /dev/hda5 which was Free space, and create a new partition of the type Apple_HFS. But everytime I do that I get: requested base and length is not within an existing free partition. If I look again at my table hda5 is still there.

I'm unable to copy paste since I also have some keyboard problems, but here's my input, if you're a bit familair with fdisk it should make sence.

p
d5
C
5
12GB
macosx
Apple_HFS
p

porodzila · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:23 pm Post subject:

have you tried typing the block numbers instead of +5GB
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eniac · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:52 pm Post subject:

thanks, if I entered the size in blocks and the first block in blocks it works fine, is this a bug ?
Also backspace doesn't work in mac-fdisk, is this normal ?
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