Install crashes at partition section

[Chris Gehlker]

On Nov 25, 2003, at 11:28 PM, Dan Wilson wrote:

> I'm having problems installing YDL 3.0 on a PowerMac G4. I've added a 
> second internal drive for Linux (I'm well aware of the issue with 
> installing YDL on the second internal drive). Every time the 
> installation gets to the disk partitioning section, the installation 
> pops up a general error (I'll write down the exact text of the error) 
> and quits. I've tried using automatic partitioning, Disk Druid and 
> pdisk. It doesn't matter what I choose... YDL still stops the 
> installation procedure at the same spot.
>
> I installed YDL on an iBook, and that installation went fine. And a 
> previous installation onto the PowerMac (to the same secondary drive) 
> went well. Only two things have changed since the original install: 
> The primary drive died and was replaced, and I installed Panther, 
> though I didn't reformat the secondary drive.

It doesn't matter (that you didn't reformat the target drive). The mere 
fact that any drive on the system has an HFS+ journaling system is 
enough to send any of the partitioning programs into a spin. The only 
way around this is to reformat with the Jag version of disk utilities.