Problem w/ PowerMac G4 install

[nathan r. hruby]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Patrick Hynes wrote:

> 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.
> 

Hmm.. You say 'new Quicksilver' perhaps you really mean one of the new 
'Mirrored Drive Doors' macs with shiny CD doors and the extra holes in the 
front?  Or maybe it's just 'new to you' :)

If the the former go to 
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_2.3/ata.shtml
and perform those steps as the current 2.3 distro does not support the 
Xserve style ATA100 drives.  These will probably be natively supported by 
YDL-3.0 or you can try installing using the Xserve ISO that's floating 
about though I'm not sure that will/won't work.

If the latter, I'm not sure.

HTH

-n
> 
> "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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