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computron

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Registered: 2010-02-18

Posts: 4

Macbook Pro + parted

So, I'm following this wiki page to install Arch on my Macbook pro (5,5):

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook

I've gotten to the step where it says to run parted to partition the drive. I've resized and everything, and created a new partition from the free space. Parted doesn't seem to have support for creating ext3 or ext4 filesystems, however... Right now when I print what I've got in parted, the partition of interest comes up as

3 100GB 160GB 60.0GB

with nothing for the Filesystem or Name columns. Should I be worried about getting this set up here or can I deal with it somewhere else?

Here's what reEFIt says:

*** Report for internal hard disk ***

Current GPT partition table:
 #      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1             40       409639  EFI System (FAT)
 2         409640    195459999  Mac OS X HFS+
 3      195460000    312581774  Basic Data

Current MBR partition table:
 # A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1              1    312581807  ee  EFI Protective

MBR contents:
 Boot Code: None

Partition at LBA 40:
 Boot Code: None (Non-system disk message)
 File System: FAT32
 Listed in GPT as partition 1, type EFI System (FAT)

Partition at LBA 409640:
 Boot Code: None
 File System: HFS Extended (HFS+)
 Listed in GPT as partition 2, type Mac OS X HFS+

Partition at LBA 195460000:
 Boot Code: None
 File System: Unknown
 Listed in GPT as partition 3, type Basic Data

Last edited by computron (2010-02-22 00:17:07)

+Holic

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Registered: 2010-02-17

Posts: 3

Re: Macbook Pro + parted

All you have to do with parted is make the partitions.  You can format the partitions with the arch installer.  I just did this last night on my white macbook 4,1 (i believe that's the number.) 

Also I don't know how you doing it, but I couldn't get extended/logical partitions to work with it, so I just put everything on one partition, and swap on another.  Grub and ext4 work without any problems.  Like I said, just make the partitions with parted, and mount and format with the arch installer.  Good luck, and enjoy Arch!

computron

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Registered: 2010-02-18

Posts: 4

Re: Macbook Pro + parted

Right, I hadn't noticed the third option in the Prepare Hard Drives section, which is "Manually Configure block devices, filesystems and mountpoints". I had been trying to use "Manually Partition Hard Drives", which was throwing me into cfdisk, which didn't like my partition table.

Which is what it says to do in the wiki... if I had read that far.

Thanks!

jimburnettva

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From: Virginia, USA

Registered: 2010-02-12

Posts: 48

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Re: Macbook Pro + parted

parted only makes partitions. The varios mkfs commands actually format to your desired filesystem

Various format commands:   (you can probably guess what kind of FS just by looking at the command)
mkfs           mkfs.ext2      mkfs.ext4dev   mkfs.msdos     mkfs.xfs
mkfs.bfs       mkfs.ext3      mkfs.jfs       mkfs.reiserfs 
mkfs.cramfs    mkfs.ext4      mkfs.minix     mkfs.vfat

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