YDL 2.2 and PPC 7500

[Mark Walker]

"Cannot initialize unsupported drives" - Drive Setup

The installer is getting the mount points correct.
I'm still getting segmentation faults after increasing the boot and swap
partitions: 100MB and 640MB.  Even after setting the mount points manually.


> On Sat Jun 15 2002, Mark Walker wrote:
> 
>> My hard drive is not an "Apple" drive (Western Digital Enterprise 9.1 GB
>> ultra fast wide SCSI-3) and drive setup will not partition it or format it.
>> I did format it using FBW's Hard Disk ToolKit PE version 3.0.2, as the
>> install guide said it was unable to work from an un-partitioned or formatted
>> disk.
>> I used the YDL setup to partition the drive into 10MB boot, 256MB swap and
>> 6883 MB ext2.
>> Looking at the partition, after my latest failure, in FBW Hard Disk shows:
>> Type - Apple_UNIX_SVR2, Size- 262145 KB (swap)
>> Type - Apple_UNIX_SVR2, size - 7047835 KB (ext2)
>> Type - Apple_Bootstrap, size - 10241 KB (boot)
> 
> Hmmm.  That's curious.  I just formatted my new 80 GB Western Digital
> drive with Apple's Drive Setup under MacOS 9.0.4.
> 
>> As far as making sure if the are formatted and mounted correctly, I'm
>> relying on YDL installer to do that.  If I could get what the mount points
>> should be, I can try to set them manually
> 
> I seem to recall that the installer sometimes got the mount points wrong,
> e.g. associating / with the swap partition, which of course really fouls
> everything up.  Use the Custom installation option and doublecheck that
> the mount points are correct.
> 
> -Bill
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