Thank you, I partitioned the drive as you said, and Yellow Dog
installed without a hitch. Unfortunately I'm not quite out of the woods
yet. When I boot from my firewire drive, I enter "l" to load from
Linux and it brings me to a screen where I need enter "mac-boot" to
proceed with booting or "shut-down" to shut down. But from there the
screen freezes. I can't type anything, so i can't make the computer
shut down except by pressing the power button. I tried booting from my
brother's G4 iMac and it skips the second screen (where my G5 iMac is
having issues) but then I get a message saying "Kernel Panic, tried to
stop init!". What's going on?
Thank you for your time.
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I'm having trouble creating the partitions for Yellow Dog. I own a G5
iMac (PowerPC) with 1GB of RAM, and am trying to install Yellow Dog on
a LaCie 40GB Mobile Hard Drive brand new, no previous OS installed on
it. The drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (not journaled). When I
boot from the Yellow Dog install disk, and enter install firewire at
the "boot" prompt, i get all the way to the manual partitioning with
Disk Druid. It lets me partition the Apple Bootstrap (although I
notice that it partitions at 8mb, even though I told it to partition as
1mb. When I try to create the swap partition at 512mb, it gives me a
"cannot allocate partition error". The same thing happens when I try to
make the root partition.
Anyone know how to correct this, preferably FREELY? I know I could use
iPartition to make the partitions for me, but spending $50 on something
I'll probably use once is not exactly appealing. Do I need to format
the drive in some other format (such as FAT32), or is there another
way?
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:40:07 -0500
From: Derick Centeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: trouble installing Yellow Dog Linux
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Hi Chris:
Generally, before you install YDL (Yellow Dog Linux) you need to format
the drive onto which YDL will exist.
If only YDL will exist on that drive then before you run the installer
you need to boot from the Apple System Disk which came with your
computer. In other words before we get to do anything involving Linux
or YDL we need to format the drive using Apple's Disk Utility which
resides within the System Disk (if you have the DVD form of that System
Disk which comprises the Hardware Test and everything else for OS X
otherwise you'll have a string of CDs; either way the program to use
will be Apple's Disk Utility regardless and it should see the entire
drive you intend to dedicate to YDL. As nothing else but YDL will be
on that drive all you need to do is select it to create 1 partition and
select the kind of partition called Free Space. It is important to
note here that although Disk Utility calls it Free Space, in actually
that is the format structure upon which YDL will use to create ext3
partition from that free space.
After Disk Utility creates what it considers to be Free Space if the
Drive was mounted, it will disappear from the desktop. OS X will ask
you to mount the drive, choose instead to ignore that request; in other
words ignore the drive. After Disk Utility has finished creating the
Free Partition, and you've closed that application. Then boot from the
YDL installation disk and tell YDL to format that newly formatted
drive. Be sure that you can recognize which drive you are formatting
and read the partition maps of which drive you are telling the YDL
installer (anaconda) to turn into a Linux or YDL only disk.
It might be a good idea to review the installation manual before
proceeding further.
If you need to review a manual regarding the instructions just download
it (for free) from here:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/installation/
I expect that the rest should be smooth sailing from that point.
Good Luck...
On Mar 15, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Christopher Nunu wrote:
I'm having trouble creating the partitions for Yellow Dog. I own a G5
iMac (PowerPC) with 1GB of RAM, and am trying to install Yellow Dog on
a LaCie 40GB Mobile Hard Drive brand new, no previous OS installed on
it. The drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (not journaled). When I
boot from the Yellow Dog install disk, and enter install firewire at
the "boot" prompt, i get all the way to the manual partitioning with
Disk Druid. It lets me partition the Apple Bootstrap (although I
notice that it partitions at 8mb, even though I told it to partition
as 1mb. When I try to create the swap partition at 512mb, it gives me
a "cannot allocate partition error". The same thing happens when I try
to make the root partition.
Anyone know how to correct this, preferably FREELY? I know I could use
iPartition to make the partitions for me, but spending $50 on
something I'll probably use once is not exactly appealing. Do I need
to format the drive in some other format (such as FAT32), or is there
another way?
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