"Guide to Installation" my foot!

[Gavin Hemphill]

You seem to be making the most effort to screw up that I can Imagine. 
Use your common sense.  I installed 3 over 2.3 without many problems on 
an oldworld wallstreet, a pismo, a 1st generation TI Powerbook and a G4 
tower (with a 22" cinema display -see my earlier message on the problems 
and their resolution with the cinema display and the radeon 7500).  The 
"guide" is intended for those that are starting an install onto a 
machine that has never had YDL on it.  Since you are re-installing (and 
I assume you made your /home partition separate to the root (/) 
partition), its a simple matter of selecting the "custom" install, 
manually partitioning with disk druid, and "editing" the root partition 
to be mounted as /, and formatted as EXT3. The install replaces the root 
partition without destroying the data on your /home partition (which 
means you can save things like your old /etc directory before you start 
the install - then use them to "remind" you about any configuration 
issues you had before).
You can even convert your /home partition to ext3 by running tune2fs 
while /home is unmounted (read the man page).
	G++

Beartooth wrote:
> 	All right, I bought the CDs, intending to install over the top 
> of 2.3 -- and sacrifice everything already there <gnash, grate, snarl>, 
> since there seems to be no option of preserving any, as for instance RH9 
> does. That's one crock already, though not a surprise. But 2.3 is so bad 
> at the multiple connections you need with a laptop that it's gotta be 
> done,
> 
> 	The accompanying book and pamphlet both insist that one use the
> so-called Guide to Installation, printed out from the Yellowdoglinux.com
> site. All I can find seems to be identical to the little pamphlet
> (called a Companion, not a guide), which came with the CDs, which
> insists that it is only an addendum. That's another and more disgusting 
> crock. Joseph Heller, are you YDL's silent partner??
> 
> 	So I decide to try to go ahead -- after all, they brag about how 
> easy it is, and how much like RH9 (which I have just installed on my 
> desktop). 
> 
> 	First I go read the manual and the non-guide "companion" --
> which tell me to start by repartitioning, using the apple install disk.
> So I go dig that out. When I get to something remotely resembling the
> place they tell me, a window labelled Select a Destination, there are
> images of hard drives labelled Mac OS X 10.3GB, share 1.0GB, and a faint
> image of a CD labelled Mac OS X Install CD 639MB
> 
> 	Now I'm supposed to double-click on the install CD. But if you
> put a cursor near it, you get a message saying "This disk is dimmed
> because it is read only" -- and if you double-click it anyway, nothing
> happens. You can't even get to the Utilities folder, let alone one
> inside it. Still another crock, and still getting worse.
> 
> 	All right, trying to get out of that, I go back and re-boot,
> with the C key held down till my arm about falls off, while the CD makes
> a huge racket, just as I did (and it did) before. That simply closes the
> loop, and gets me back to the dim disk. Still another crock.
> 
> 	So maybe it's just the ostensibly fine manual that's snafu'd. 
> Put in 3.0 Install 1 without reartitioning first; maybe that'll do it.
> 
> 	Of course they don't tell you you have to hold C again -- unless
> it's in that boot message, which is so tiny and goes by in seconds,
> anyway; so you waste still more time. But you do eventually get to
> "Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux" -- which tells you yet again to read the
> fine but non-extant Guide ...
> 
> 	[To Be Continued -- stay tuned]
>