%general-entities; ]> Open Firmware and the Mac OS's impose certain requirements on partitioning. This is discussed in . In particular, you cannot use fdisk, you will need an apple_bootstrap partition, and that should precede any OSX partition. Start a disk partitioning program such as parted with a command line option naming the hard disk on which the new partition will be created—for example /dev/hda for the primary Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) disk. Create at least an apple bootstrap partition, a Linux native partition, and a swap partition, if needed. Please refer to parted(8) if you do not yet know how to use the programs. Remember the designation of the new partition (e.g., hda5). This book will refer to this as the CLFS partition. Also remember the designation of the swap partition. These names will be needed later for the /etc/fstab file. You will also need to know the designation of the apple_bootstrap partition for the yaboot.conf when you set this up before you run ybin.