[Gllug] Mactel Linux problem - Save my marriage :)

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Thu Jul 26 09:35:35 UTC 2007


On Wed 25 Jul, Panos Savvas wrote:
> Hi I downloaded the 1.3 branch, however it has been built for PPC (as i
> noticed later) which i guess is the reason it won't run on my intel mac.
> However the 1.4dev universal branch also does the same.
> 
> I might cut my loses as this has been going on for a while and go with
> Andrew's suggestion. I would love to find a way to resize the partitions
> without doing the MS-Shuffle. I might just try to delete the linux partition
> without formating and see if this then gets picked up by the mac disk
> utility.
> 
> I haven't had to format/reinstall my ubuntu lap top in 2 years despite
> making some serious braindead moves ;) I suppose I am starting to take for
> granted that my OS problems should be recoverable/fixable.
> 
   You may be able to use the Linux disc to just delete the problem
partitions and rewrite the partition table with some clear unused space,
then re-boot and go on from there.

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Chris Bell

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