Problem w/ PowerMac G4 install

[Patrick Hynes]

The first part of my drive is designated as "unallocated" in OSX Disk Utility.
>From what I have read the disk appears to be set up properly for YDL
installation, but still fails with "no hard disks were found."  No problem
booting into OSX.


"nathan r. hruby" wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Patrick Hynes wrote:
>
> > I am attempting to set up a dual-boot system on a new Quicksilver?
> > model. First I replaced the video card with an older supported ATI
> > card.  I have split the disk in two and installed OS_X on the second
> > half of the disk. The first part of the disk is unallocated. Now I am
> > attempting to install YDL from the current 2.3 ISO image.  The installer
> > fails due to a a partitioning error. I receive a dialog box stating that
> > "no hard disks were found". Has anybody seen this? Any ideas? Thanks in
> > advance for any info.
> >
>
> You need to make sure that the the first half of your disk (eg: the
> portion of your disk you want to install YDL on :) in OSX's  DiskUtility
> (or 0S9's Drive Setup) is selected as 'Unallocated'.
>
> -n
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