[conspire] Hd Question/ ppc

[John Andrews]

john-andrews-imac:~ Jla$ sudo pdisk -l

Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/rdisk0'
#:                type name                   length   base     ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple                      63 @ 1
2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh                  56 @ 64
3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh                  56 @ 120
4:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh                  56 @ 176
5:    Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh                  56 @ 232
6:      Apple_FWDriver Macintosh                 512 @ 288
7:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh                 512 @ 800
8:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition           512 @ 1312
9:          Apple_Free                      20270632 @ 1824     (  9.7G)
10:           Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 19748152 @ 20272456  
(  9.4G)
11:          Apple_Free                            16 @ 40020608

Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=40020624 (19.1G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1:  23 @ 64, type=0x1
2:  36 @ 120, type=0xffff
3:  21 @ 176, type=0x701
4:  34 @ 232, type=0xf8ff

I want to install Edgy into the above HD on /dev/rdisk0s9. How do I  
do that since the installer can't find it on its own. I think s9  
might need to be inititialized or have an Mbr put on it but I don't  
know what to do. Should I use fdisk, pdisk or diskutil. Any help  
would be appreciated.

69-85-162-251:~ Jla$ sudo pdisk -l /dev/rdisk0s9
Password:
pdisk: can't open file '/dev/rdisk0s9'  (No such file or directory)

69-85-162-251:~ Jla$ sudo pdisk  /dev/rdisk0s9
pdisk: can't open file '/dev/rdisk0s9'  (No such file or directory)

69-85-162-251:~ Jla$ fdisk /dev/rdisk0s9
fdisk: /dev/rdisk0s9: No such file or directory

69-85-162-251:~ Jla$ fdisk /dev/rdisk0s10
fdisk: /dev/rdisk0s10: Permission denied

69-85-162-251:~ Jla$ sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0s11
fdisk: /dev/rdisk0s11: No such file or directory

69-85-162-251:~ Jla$ sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0s8
Disk: /dev/rdisk0s8     geometry: 2/4/63 [512 sectors]
Signature: 0x0
          Starting       Ending
#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

69-85-162-251:~ Jla$ sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0
Disk: /dev/rdisk0       geometry: 2491/255/63 [40020624 sectors]
Signature: 0x0
          Starting       Ending
#: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
69-85-162-251:~ Jla$

How come this stuff is zeros?