Since I'm booting OSes that are *NOT* Mac OS 9, that's to say I'm only interested in booting NetBSD, Linux, and of course OS X.. Do I need those "default" partitions that always seem to get installed somehow? (Mac OS 9 disklabel got them in there) In the disklabel below, I'm specifically asking about partitions #2 through #8. I wouldn't mind getting rid of them and claiming back the extra few MBs and cleaning up the label (I like minimalism).. If I delete them, will I cause trouble? I don't have an extra 2.5" drive to play around with...
This also leads me to another question: If I delete partitions 9 through to the end, then I have lots of trouble getting OS X to install in that it doesn't offer the harddrive to install onto during the install process.. The only way that I've got it to offer the drive so far, is to create a partion of type Apple_HFS.. Is there any other way? How about when you buy a fresh HD, i.e. one without a disklabel at all, how does OS X go about it? Will OS X then add all those extra partitions too?
/dev/disk0 map block size=512
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 54 @ 64
3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118
4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 192
5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 246
6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 200 @ 320
7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 520
8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1032
9: Apple_Boot MOSX_OF3_Booter 16384 @ 1544 ( 8.0M)
10: Apple_Loader SecondaryLoader 1024 @ 17928
11: Apple_UFS Mac_OS_X 19621905 @ 18952 ( 9.4G)
Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=19640880
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1
2: @ 118 for 36, type=0xffff
3: @ 192 for 21, type=0x701
4: @ 246 for 34, type=0xf8ff
This also leads me to another question: If I delete partitions 9 through to the end, then I have lots of trouble getting OS X to install in that it doesn't offer the harddrive to install onto during the install process.. The only way that I've got it to offer the drive so far, is to create a partion of type Apple_HFS.. Is there any other way? How about when you buy a fresh HD, i.e. one without a disklabel at all, how does OS X go about it? Will OS X then add all those extra partitions too?
/dev/disk0 map block size=512
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 54 @ 64
3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 74 @ 118
4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 54 @ 192
5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 74 @ 246
6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 200 @ 320
7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 520
8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1032
9: Apple_Boot MOSX_OF3_Booter 16384 @ 1544 ( 8.0M)
10: Apple_Loader SecondaryLoader 1024 @ 17928
11: Apple_UFS Mac_OS_X 19621905 @ 18952 ( 9.4G)
Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=19640880
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1
2: @ 118 for 36, type=0xffff
3: @ 192 for 21, type=0x701
4: @ 246 for 34, type=0xf8ff