YDL 2.2 and PPC 7500

[Rich Dolinsky]

Something else to try.
When formatting the drive, format the bootstrap and Mac OS partition, and
leave the rest unallocated.  The YDL installer should format the unallocated
properly.  This is the way I do it everytime (I have to reinstall from
scratch all the time cause of my measly 2 4 gig hds.  I sometimes just need
the room for mac os stuff on my secondary hd. (I use linux primarily for
hobby programming.  Only problem is I got Verizon DSL working the first
time...and then NEVER again.  Ah well.  Waiting for July to buy a new
machine and run OS X and Linux without problems.

on 6/16/02 12:38 AM, Mark Walker at walkermh@earthlink.net wrote:

> I'd be happy just to get it to install.
> 
>> 
>> You can get by fine with swap and / (root). It's a breeze to install
>> additional drives and switch mount points over to those drives once you
>> get the installation going. Keep in mind that anything that taxes drive
>> performance won't be great with a single partition and e2fsck will take
>> longer to puzzle out problems with a single partition, but you can do it
>> fine.
>> 
>> In fact, unless you have a really nice drive, the gains from setting up
>> separate partitions are nowhere near the gains from splitting mount points
>> over multiple drives (at least on SCSI), so you'll wind up with a zippier
>> system anyway if you take this route.
>> 
>> You might also want, when you have some time, to read up a little on how
>> Linux handles mount points, so you can get yourself thinking more 'nixy
>> about drives and mounts.
>> 
>> Short answer: yes, no problem. Probably better to do it that way if you
>> have a small drive: you can always add/expand drives later.
>> 
>> - n
>> 
>>> Do you need a home partition?  Or can you exist with just a root.
>>> I've tired with adjusting the partition sizes with no success.
>> 
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