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On Jan 22, 2008, at 12:06 PM, Peter Grehan wrote:

>> Also, why not wipe all partitions and boot from TFTP to get the
>> loader?  Would that work?
>
> For a long time there was no native partitioning tool, and even now  
> I'm not sure if g_part can do it.

Yes, g_part supports APM. It would be great if sysinstall would
work with g_part so that one can repartition while installing.
For now, you can use Mac OS X to repartition and then change the
partition types with g_part or further add new partitions...

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Marcel Moolenaar
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