Hi List
After taking my old G4 mac-mini apart at the B&B on the 2nd (which was an
enjoyable and friendly meeting, thanks to Adrian's talk for enlightening
me on some more OpenVPN options and Hugo for clarifying the 'Web of
Trust') with an unidentified object from the kitchen, now known to be a
cheese slice! incidentally not the best tool for opening up a mac-mini, a
fish slice was what I meant to bring, FYI alternatively two putty knifes
will work too, I have hooked up the 2.5" HDD to a Via Mini-ITX Main Board.
I am running Knoppix, as a live CD, and attempting to recover my home
partition from the disk before formatting it and installing Fedora 8.
The problem - got there eventually - is that two of the partitions are not
recognised by the mount command, i.e. mount -t $type /dev/hda4 /mnt/tmp
two others are. This is the potential partition layout:
/dev/hda1 - not recognised
/dev/hda2 - recognised, contains yaboot.conf
/dev/hda3 - recognised, contains vmlinuz
/dev/hda4 - not recognised
I have attempted to use a number of partition types, as I can't remember
exactly which file system I used as it was so long ago I initially built
the machine.
fdisk -l /dev/hda complains that there is a missing partition tables,
which is unexpected, or possibly not: 'Disk /dev/hda doesn't contain a
valid partition table'.
I am currently running gpart overnight; gpart /dev/hda to see if I can
glean some more information about the partitions on the disk.
Does anyone have some idea about what may have happened here? I am
wondering if the fact the disk was previously used in a Power PC format
perhaps this has affected the state of the partition table.
If there is no relatively simple resolution I will have to drop the HDD
drive back into the mac-mini temporarily and go from there.
Damian
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Damian Brasher
www.interlinux.co.uk
www.diap.org.uk
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