[vsurfer]

Dear Penguins

I'm trying to find a terminal command in OSX 10.1.2 to list volumes

/dev/hda1
/dev/hda2
etc

and their corresponding sizes and formats so i can be sure which numbers my Linux A/UX root and swap partitions are on.
I tried
pdisk /dev/hda -l and
pdisk /dev/hda -dump

to no avail

Any thoughts?

[utidjian]

Originally posted by vsurfer:
<STRONG>Dear Penguins

I'm trying to find a terminal command in OSX 10.1.2 to list volumes

/dev/hda1
/dev/hda2
etc

and their corresponding sizes and formats so i can be sure which numbers my Linux A/UX root and swap partitions are on.
I tried
pdisk /dev/hda -l and
pdisk /dev/hda -dump

to no avail

Any thoughts?</STRONG>

Just try mount or df if they are already mounted.

[vsurfer]

Thanks, I'll remember those commands.

turns out the vols are not mounted since they are A/UX, but the installer found them and let me know they were hda14 and hda15, when it made the m ext2, so no worries.

That the installer froze on a multitude of attempts on the next to last step is another matter altogether.

[smic]

a little off topic, but can osx mount ext2 partitions? i cant mount the ones i have
what i really want to do is change my yaboot/ybin partition, cause i installed debian, but cant boot into it

[Sarah31]

Originally posted by smic:
<STRONG>a little off topic, but can osx mount ext2 partitions? i cant mount the ones i have
what i really want to do is change my yaboot/ybin partition, cause i installed debian, but cant boot into it</STRONG>

I don't think so but if you know which partition Yaboot is on boot into your OF and type:

setenv boot-device hd:#,\\:tbxi

Where '#' = the partition your bootlaoder is on

then enter

and then type

shut-down (then enter)

and reboot and you should be into your Yaboot bootlaoder and can then boot Debian, hopefully. To edit your yaboot.conf I think it resides in /etc. I had no trouble editing it but my problem was finding the proper ybin command to get my changes written into the Yaboot record (stumbled across it but I made an error and totally screwed up the bootloader )

Let me know if the above worked for you.

[smic]

i can boot the bootloader partition, its just that debian doesnt use that as the default when it installs, and the yaboot is still configured to my yellowdog settings, so it won't load debian since it cant find the kernel image to load, been buggin me for 3 weeks now

i work with someone who uses just debian, but on a pc, so he was no help, cause normally it uses a boot floppy, but not on the pmac port, rrrrrrrrr

and the debian install stuff is no help either, from what i can see im doing it all right, just it wont install the 'boot off hard drive option'