YDL 2.2 install on Pb3400c failure during partitioning

[Jeff Brendle]

Howdy, folks. Was wondering if anyone could shed light on a problem 
that I am having with the YDL text installer on this old Pb3400c ... 
I follow the dual-boot/one-drive install steps to create the 2nd 
partition HFS boot partition w/ MacOS9 using drive setup, install the 
BootX bits, and then start to install from the text install program 
on reboot to the "free" space ... assign the sizes for bootloader and 
swap slices and then the ext2 partition for linux and then as the 
program begins to set up these filesystems., I run into a problem 
Unfortunately, as it is working on doing the 2nd or 3rd slice, the 
program terminates abnormally, quitting the filesystem preparations 
and the installer, leaving me no option but to reboot. I cannot get 
beyond this point. Is this a flaw in the installer, or the 
partitioning/formatting utility or something that can be worked 
around? Have been tempted to locate a 2.5" -> 3.5" IDE adapter and 
mount the laptop drive in some other machine to prepare the drive as 
an alternative, but that seemed a little extreme. If is is a matter 
of the scripts that are running behind the installer failing, is 
there a way to boot from some sort of kernel image and tweak these 
things by hand? Appreciate any help...
-j
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