[Q27]

I was wondering if someone could help me with removing OS X Server? I want to put OS9 back on the drive, but since OSX formats the drive to UFS I am unsure on how to remove it.
I have 2 partitions on the drive, one is OS X Server and one is OS 9.0.4. I would like to be able to remove the OS X without having to format the entire drive.

[This message has been edited by Q27 (edited 06-10-2000).]

[nibs]

you can use pdisk to remove mac os x server:
do you know how to use pdisk?
basically from the top level:
'L' - lists all devices
"l /dev/x" - lists a particular device. my device was "/dev/ata0.0"
"e /dev/ata0.0" - edit the partition map for my device. this drops you into the editing sub-level.

'p' - print the partition map (same as "l /dev/ata0.0" from the top level.
my exact commands:
"d5" - delete partition 5, the boot loader partition
"d6" - delete partition 6, the secondary loader partition
"d6" - the mac os x server partition.
after you delete both 5 & 6 they combine into 1 free space partition @ p5.
you can type p at any time to see what's going on.
'C' create a new partition. (don't use 'c' as it doesn't allow you to specify a type)
first block: should match the base of the newly created free space partition
length: should match the length of the free space partition
name: name the partition without using spaces
type: make your type Apple_HFS
i think that's all the info you need. just type 'w' to write the new partition map, and 'q' to quit the program. then reboot .
if you make any mistakes you can quit out of the program with no worry. it doesn't make changes until you type 'w' for write.



[This message has been edited by nibs (edited 06-11-2000).]