Anaconda Error

[Rick Thomas]

On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 04:51 PM, Miguel A. Mota Jr. wrote:
>
> So all I have to do is completely wiped my old windows drive
> properly and install YD 2.2. Since apparently "fdisking" and 
> deleting the
> partitions didn't do it (YD 2.2 installation says something about 
> MS-Dos
> partitions), can someone recommend a proper procedure?  I don't 
> any Mac OS
> CDs.

You need to borrow a MacOS CD from somebody long enough to reformat 
your drive with Apple format partition tables.  The disk has MS-DOS 
(actually Windows) partition tables on it from the last computer it 
was in.  Apple (and PPC Linux) use a completely different format of 
partition table, and the YDL installation routines are getting 
confused.

Using fdisk won't do the job.  Fdisk just makes MS-DOS partition 
tables.  It doesn't know anything about Apple partition tables.

Boot from the MacOS CD (by holding down the "C" key while you 
power-on the machine) and run the program called "Drive Setup" in 
the "Utilities" folder.  It's pretty intuitive -- and there's a 
"Help" facility.  I'd recommend making two partitions, one small 
one (maybe 500 MB) of type "MacOS Extended" for MacOS and the other 
of type "Unallocated" for Linux.  The "Unallocated" one will be 
subdivided using the Linux partitioning tools.

If you have trouble, ask here for help.

Since you have a Blue&White, you do not have to install MacOS.  
However, many folks find it useful to have a MacOS partition 
available for multi-booting, even if Linux is their main OS.  
Having the MacOS option to fall back on can save you lots of time 
with certain kinds of trouble shooting.

After creating an Apple format partition table on the disk you 
should be able to boot from the YDL CD (same thing -- hold down the 
"C" key) and use the Linux utilities to partition the disk the way 
you want it to be.

Incidentally, I'd recommend that you use YellowDog Linux version 
3.0, rather than 2.2.  2.x versions are no longer supported by 
YellowDog, and 3.0 has lots of enhancements.


Hope this helps!

Rick