On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Barry Hertzberg wrote: > Now I'm really confused by your statement Stew. (((groan))) > > See what I want it is to not deal at all with the MAC OS. Just Mandrake. >
Yes I understand. New World machines don't need MacOS, but a Mac partition table will make life easier for you. > Aren't Diskdrake and yaboot two separate things? > Yes. > I'm using yaboot to configure right? I can't get to Diskdrake until I > finish the setup with yaboot. Unless I'm just confused and diskdrake is You don't really see yaboot during the install. The installer runs ybin, which sets up the bootloader, but the bootstrap partition is created before diskdrake runs, which is before packages are installed etc. The bootloader setup comes after package install, just before X setup. > part of yaboot. Is it that part that allows me to move the partitions > around? I have told that part - whatever it is - I thought it was yaboot... > I told that thing to clear all the partitions and let the thing set it all > up for me. I had to go back and get it to make a usr directory for me. Why > for the life of me I can't figure out why it did not set that up > automatically. You sort of need a usr directory don't you? > The "clearing all partitions" is where you went wrong. You probably did have a bootstrap until then. It's small, only 1 MB, and easy to miss. You don't necessarily need a seperate /usr. although it's fairly common to do so. > Anyway, how specifically do you get this thing to make the 1MB boot partition. > It does it for you, before diskdrake, or you manually create a partition, type "Apple Bootstrap", no mount point. > I think that they need to work out how the install routine works. It's > flakey. I know that when I set up a machine using yellowdog it was much > more straight forward. I ,may try YDL tomorrow in the lab and bail out of > Mandrake. I'm not seeing the solution or the documentation for how to do > this easily. > Your choice. I'm telling how it normally works. I think your clearing the partition table is probably the source of your issues. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
