On 15 Mar 2006, at 20:40, Derick Centeno wrote:
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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