mac-fdisk : command not found

fluffbrown · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 2

Hi,

a newbie to Gentoo. I am installing onto a G4 Mac(quicksilver) using the handbook and I'm trying to run 'mac-fdisk' with no luck. I've checked the forums but there seems no answer to this specifically. It says the 'command cannot be found' as does 'parted'. Am i missing something basic, the handbook is very verbose and then suddenly gives little info on using this command correctly.

Any help much appreciated. I would ideally like to partition the drive too to install OS X Tiger on another partition.

Thankyou

nixnut · Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Gentoo on PPC.

mac-fdisk is on the ppc livecd's. Did you chroot already? Can't imagine why you can't find it otherwise.
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JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

I'm also a bit confused, perhaps if you provided a quick rundown of what you've done up to this point, that would help.
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fluffbrown · n00b Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 2

Hi,

thanks for your replies. I did solve it by trial and error. I decided to reboot and then was able to use the command.

What caused it I think was in the manual prior to this part it mentions about creating an admin user...which I did and su'ed to them. I then changed back to root and at this point attemped the command which is when it failed. I may have cd to other directories to check out the directories created at this point and not gone back to the original one. I guess this would make a difference ? Can you tell me where the mac-fdisk command lives ?

Again thanks for your replies

MACSRULETHEWORLD · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 17 Apr 2004 Posts: 131