Thanks Derick for the quick response. It helped. From now on I will
only do this critical setup manually. More questions. I understand
that the untitled spaces are linux partitions that OS X does not
recognize. Initially when I tried to manually input the partition info
I was asked for a mount point. The manual partitioning would not
continue unless I fill this in. Page 5 of the "A Companion to Install
YDL" does not tell you what to do. I want to make sure I use up all of
the free space and also put the linux partitions in front of the OS X
and OS 9 partitions. Any explaination on how to control the spot on
the hard drive where the partitions reside? Thanks for any advice. I
found some disk druid tutorials on the net which are geared to Red Hat,
I will study them to see if I can figure this out more. Thanks again.
Dave
Derick Centeno wrote:
Hi Dave:
General rule in IT, never let a computer do anything like partitioning
manually unless you know exactly what it is going to do.
Instead of trusting Disk Druid you could trust yourself to partition
your system manually and you would get then, exactly what you want and
where.
Regarding Free Space: that is the space hopefully which you created
using Apple Utility so that when it created partitions for OS9/OS X it
also created a partition called Untitled which within Linux is read as
Free Space. That free space is divided up further following standard
instructions provided elsewhere by TSS for getting a drive ready so
that it is partitioned for YDL. The application used to actually do
the partitioning is pdisk. The directories which Linux uses are also
created with pdisk. The one other application you could trust most of
the time (again if you can do it manually anyway AND you understand
what process is being automated, is the YDL installation program. You
won't have to worry about pdisk or any other thing, just select what
you want installed.
On Aug 8, 2005, at 3:18 PM, David Froseth wrote:
Hi everyone,
I tried to install YDL 4.0.1 and I ran into some problems. First,
the automatic partitioning I used in Disk Druid changed my partitions
around in a way that concerned me. I started out with a scene that
looked like this in the OS X Disk Utility - Partition section:
__________________
Free Space
__________________
OS X HD
__________________
OS 9.2.2 HD
__________________
After partitioning in the YDL settup, it looked like this
__________________
Untitled
__________________
OS X HD
__________________
Untitled
__________________
Free Space
__________________
OS 9.2.2 HD
__________________
Untitled
__________________
The order of all the partitions was changed around. YDL partitions
are mixed with Mac OS partitions and there is still a large section
of free space. Is that normal? I want YDL partitons to be at the
top and no free space. Can I do that? Is that what I should have?
Also, yaboot did not recognize the monitor of my PowerBook G4 Ti 550
Mhz laptop, so all I get is the command line. How could I solve this
problem?
Thanks for any help from anyone.
Dave
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