Wow, what a friendly mailing list. All these responses in one day. My sincere Thank You goes to you all who responded. :-)
One thing that I didn't mention is that as Olaf has said, the drive was used on a different machine, gasp!(Windows). May be that's the problem. I'll try Collin's method and report back. Thank you again, Stephen. On 1/12/06, Olaf Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a G3 B&W, with two drives. One is 80 Gb and the other is 200Gb. > The 200 Gb is partitioned into two smaller pieces (It's my wife's > machine and she won't let me look to see exactly what the sizes are). I > don't think this is what's causing the problem. Even then, it sounds > like Stephen is installing on a blank disk. The installer should be able > to specify how to partition the entire disk and doesn't need anything > else to decide what to do with it, unless... > > Was the drive already partitioned, using the apple utilities? Even if > you are planning to erase the entire drive, in favor of a complete YDL > installation and takeover of the drive, the section of the drive you're > intending to use must be labeled as unused disk space, in order for the > installer to deal with it. At least, that's what YDL 3.0 required. I > suspect that 4 will do the same. I admit that I haven't upgraded, yet. > > Olaf > > Derick Centeno wrote: > > > My memory regarding the G3 is a bit fuzzy but I do recall reading > > somewhere that the G3 cannot recognize drives large drives ranging > > beyond 30G. This is a limitation of the firmware and so there will > > always be misinformation regarding what it sees and understands. The > > work around is to treat huge drives such as you are working with and > > paritition them so that they are within a range that G3 systems are > > familiar with -- the size of the drives which were in existence when > > the G3 was in it's prime. It may turn out that 30G may be that > > optimal size, which means that the G3 could be helped to be more > > efficient by partitioning the 200G drive into chunks 30G wide. > > > > A waste of a hard drive certainly, but older systems have an upper > > bound limit which they are comfortable with. > > > > This is something to consider if Collin's solution doesn't pan out or > > work in solving your difficulty. > > > > On Jan 12, 2006, at 10:51 PM, Collin O'Neill wrote: > > > >> How about re-writing the disk label in rescue mode? You can use > >> parted or fdisk to re-write it.. THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR DATA, so if > >> you have important data on the disk, back it up first or take another > >> approach. > >> > >> 1. At the boot prompt, type "linux rescue". > >> 2. Go through the rescue boot procedure. It will probably ask you > >> what language you want to speak and your keyboard's nationality. > >> 3. I like parted unless fdisk does something special given the > >> application, so type > >> "parted [your device here]". Most likely your device is /dev/hda. > >> 4. Type "mklabel", and specify the "mac" partition table type. > >> 5. Type "p" to see what it's done to your disk. You should see a > >> single 0.31MB partition dedicated to Apple bootstrap. > >> 5. - if you want to specify partitions before installation, this is > >> the place to do it. > >> 6. Otherwise, type "q" to quit and "exit" to reboot and resume > >> installation. > >> > >> -Collin > >> > >> Stephen Ko wrote: > >> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> I've spent several hours trying to install 4.0 on G3 but failed due to > >>> partition problem. When I tried to partition 200GB, for some reason, > >>> YDL reserves almost all the space to apple partition map(I think it > >>> was around 190 GB) which only leaves me with 10 GB to play around > >>> with. Neither the autopartition nor the disk druid seems to do the > >>> trick. So I am pretty much stuck with 10 GB which apple bootstrap, > >>> swap, and / must share. > >>> > >>> Can anyone please tell me what I am doing wrong? > >>> Thank you, > >>> Stephen. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> yellowdog-newbie mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> yellowdog-newbie mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > >> > >> > > ========================== > > "What do you call a peaceful, productive, person who is prevented by > > force of law from disposing of his efforts as he sees fit? A slave." > > -- Rick Gaber > > > > _______________________________________________ > > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
