YDL 2.2 install on Pb3400c failure during partitioning

[Bill Fink]

On Wed Apr 10 2002, Jeff Brendle wrote:

> 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.

Hi Jeff,

One of the earlier YDL installers had a bug, where it appeared to assume
that the first partition after the boot loader was the root partition.
I don't know if this is still the case with the YDL 2.2 installer.  But
you might want to try using the recommended order, which in your case I
believe would be macos (hda9), bootloader (hda10), root (hda11), swap (hda12),
and then any others such as a partition for user files (hda13, etc).

						-Bill