Hi, I seem to have a little problem. I recently inherited an old mac 8100. It had system 7.5 on it. I wanted to dual boot between OS 8 and mklinux. I'm not too familiar with the platform, so I prolly could have done this a better way...but..

I booted from the 8 cd, and wiped the drive... it wouldn't let me partition it with Drive Setup because it's not an Apple HD. So I just erased it and installed OS 8 on over the entire disk. I placed the mklinux files accordingly and then booted into the install. All is well. Then I went to repartition the drive with pdisk from within the installer. I erased the HFS partition and then made what i thought was a 500meg HFS partition, and a 500meg mklinux partition. Then I installed mklinux. It went fine. I rebooted off the OS 8 cd, because I deleted the macos installation. And here is my problem, thanks for baring with me.... *No Drives Show Up*
I knew the mklinux would not, but the "HFS" didn't either. Now I can't use Drive Setup, and I've tried other utilities to either initialize the HFS partition or just wipe it clean again, but nothing... What can I do? Are there any tools(maybe for floppy) that I can use? I tried pdisk from cd and floppy but no dice.. Any help with be appreciated.

Thanks, Sam

You should download the latest drive setup from the apple web site. The newer setup will fromat third party drive. Just bootup from your 8.0 cd rom and hace a drive setup on the floppy drive when the mac finish booting up from the cd.

I have a similar problem. I was trying to install MkLinux and ran pdisk from the installer to form root, swap and other partitions. In the process I initialized the partition map - which I found out deletes the device drivers so that it cannot be recognized by the MacOS... From the previous post, is it correct to assume that I could use the newest version of Drive Setup from a boot disk no matter how screwed up the HD is?
(Its a PowerComputing 100 with a SCSI HD ID:0 if this helps)
-Doug