YDL fdisk says it can't find hard drive on new dual G4

[nathan r. hruby]

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Grant Chesy wrote:

> This is one of the latest G4s, the one with the four cooling holes at
> the bottom of the front, the metal drive bay covers, and that same silly
> exposed speaker cone at the top.
> 

They are called 'Mirrored Doors" PowerMacs.

Not Apple's most elegant design :)  I think they are progressivly making 
them uglier so when the next chip revision comes out, everyone will buy 
them because of the distinct lack of fugly.  IMHO, of course :)

> I think Apple crippled this hardware to hide the IDE drive so people
> would have more trouble trying to install OS9 on the box.  The apple
> disk partioning software w/ OS 9.2.2 can't see the drive either.  If you
> install OSX, then do a software restore of a "special" OS 9.2.2, it
> works fine... even if you then delete the OSX.  Even at this point, a
> standard OS 9.2.2 CD cannot see the drive, even though you can now boot
> directly into the restored "special" OS 9.2.2.
> 
> Is there a similar (or completely different) workaround to get YDL
> installed on this box?
> 

Did you try to make an empty partition using the OSX Disk Utility and 
install linux into that?  What are the error the YDL installer gives you?

-n

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