YDL install into an Extended Partition

[Rick Thomas]

Oh, And just in case you make a mistake in all this...

Backup your other partitions before you start!

Belt and suspenders -- never hurts.

Rick



Tyler Kelly wrote:
> 
> You can install on an existing partition, but you have to do it manually, using Disk Druid.
> 
> After you boot from the YDL CD and start the installation process, when it gets to the point where it asks you how you want to install, choose to use Disk Druid.  You will need to first tell Disk Druid to delete the existing partition on which you want to install Linux (make sure you get the right partition, or it will wipe out your OS X!) then you tell it to create three different partitions in the unallocated space that is now available -- a fixed size Apple Bootstrap partition of 1 MB, a fixed size swap partition of at least 256 MB, and in the rest of the sapce, an Ext3 partition for Linux.  On the Ext3 partition, check the "fill rest of unallocated space" button, and make the mount point /. (The YDL installation instructions supplement says to make the mount point /root, but that must be a typo, because it doesn't work.)
> 
> This worked for me and will not wipe out the rest of your hard disk.  Before tying this, be sure to carefully read the installation instructions supplement on the YDL web site.
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