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To: Robert A H Holmberg <rahholmb@cc.helsinki.fi>,
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Subject: Re: Odd partition overlapping problem
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.30.0111131627170.14606-100000@sirppi.helsinki.fi>; from Robert A H Holmberg on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:45:35PM +0200
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 04:45:35PM +0200, Robert A H Holmberg wrote:

> I partitioned the drive with linux fdisk, since I don't trust dos fdisk.

But Linux fdisk and DOS FDISK do not have precisely the same function.
Linux fdisk only writes the partition table. DOS FDISK also writes
boot sector information. Generally, you should use the fdisk type
program belonging to OS X before installing OS X.
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