The "scratch" volume is just a place i use to do digital video editing.
There aren't any holes, that 2gb is at the end of the drive.
I'm letting it do the "simple" partition setup.
I have a 6.4, but i'm going to get an MCE case and use it in my expansion
bay. :D
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stew Benedict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: MD8 PPC on a Lombard
>
> When you say "scratch volume" is it setup as some type of partition? If
> there is any kind of "hole" in the partiion table, the installer get
> confused as to which partition is which. The installer should be creating
> as a minimum:
>
> bootstrap
> swap
> "/"
>
> Is /dev/hda14 the bootstrap? You czn get around this problem by
> formatting it by hand.
>
> Switch to VT2
> hformat /dev/hda14
>
> (please make sure it is the correct partition first!)
>
> This was an older problem where I was attempting to format the bootstrap
> before the partition table was committed to disk. I didn't think it was
> on the ISO's though.
>
> (got any more of those 20gb drives laying around? ;^))
>
> Stew Benedict
>
> --
> MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/
>
>
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Dave C wrote:
>
> > I've spent the last few days trying to get this installed on my lombard.
> >
> > Here's where i have the problem. When it tries to install the
bootloader i get the following message: "Initialization of bootloader
failed. The following error occured: hmount: /dev/hda14: not a Macintosh
HFS volume (invalid argument) ybin: An error occured trying to access
/dev/hda14 as HFS"
> >
>
>
>
