YDL 2.2 install on Pb3400c failure during partitioning

[Jeff Brendle]

Thanks for the reply. The problem I was having was after exiting from 
the partitioning screen in the text-mode installer after creating the 
3 slices in the unallocated first partition of the hdd (by clicking 
"save"). That's where the program starts to do the filesystem 
formatting/mounting, gets I think to the 2nd or 3rd partition (the 
ext2 one for linux, I see that it does the swap one, that takes a 
couple of seconds, the 10M bootloader one might be quick enough that 
I don't see it, that's why I am not sure if it is busy with the third 
or maybe something is really crashing when it tries to do something 
with the swap partition it just finished if that's the 1st one it is 
working on?), then I assume whatever program they are using (format? 
newfs??) sees something it doesn't like, and exits nastily: "install 
exited abnormally" and then I assume the install wrapper script does 
the term/kill signalling to bring the system down and force a reboot. 
Don't know WHY, but it does this reproducibly each time, same place. 
FWIW, my map looks like this: hda9 - hfs for the bootloader, hda10 
hfs for macos, hda11 for the swap, and hda12 for linux. That this is 
different from the example in the manual doesn't seem to me to be 
sufficient reason for the crash. But then, I don't have any better 
idea of what its problem IS.
-j
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