YDL 2.2 installed across 2 drives

[Mark Jaffe]

On 4/12/02 10:35 AM, "Suinn, Randy" <rsuinn@bb.directv.com> wrote:

> hi, and thanks in advance for the replies :-)
> 
> I installed YDL 2.2 recently after downloading the image and everything went
> quite well until the Package Selection installation where it would return an
> error.  It wasn't an out of space error.
> I've selected different packages each time (including the smallest pkg) to
> see if that would make a difference but still received the same error (which
> I can't quite recall right now).
> Can I install the boot and swap on 1 drive that has the MacOS, and the root
> on the 2nd 1 gig drive?
> My Config: 
> 8500 (old world ROM)
> 94 mb RAM 
> (2) 1 gig internal SCSI drives
> MAC OS 9.0 on 1 drive
> YDL 2.2 - using the BootX bootloader
> 
Randy,

This should not be a problem; I've had VERY good success with YDL on 8500
machines, although with larger disks.

I would suggest doing your disk formatting first, outside of the installer
environment. Use your HD formatting tool, make a boot partition for MacOS as
HFS, minimum of 300Mb; then an A/UX swap partition of 128Mb, the rest as
A/UX-style partition as root "/". The YDL installer will recognize these as
the correct partitions when it gets to the install stage. Format the
remaining disk as A/UX user partition and name it /home. All your user
accounts will go on this partition.

You will need to do an install of MacOS on the HFS partition next. I suggest
8.6 as you don't need any of the stuff in OS 9. Then get the BootX setup on
that system. When you restart after installing BootX, you will get about 10
seconds to choose between MacOS and Linux. One of those buttons will be the
default; if you ALWAYS want to go to YDL, hit Tab and the Linux button will
get the default highlighting. Now you'll be ready to do the install of YDL.

When you run the install, skip the part where it asks you to format the
drives. The next step where you specify the labeling is where you will tell
YDL which partitions you have already made and give them their names.

Hope this helps.

Mark
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