Install crashes at partition section

[Chris Gehlker]

On Nov 28, 2003, at 5:47 PM, Bruce Miller wrote:

> I installed YDL3.0 successfully on a partitioned drive with Panther 
> present without issue. Yaboot boots YDL, 10.3.1, OS9 fine. The HFS+ 
> Journaling only affects that partition AFAIK.

I agree that you can install YDL with Panther present. What you can't 
do is install YDL on any drive that was partitioned with the Panther 
version of Disk Utility. This is not just my experience. I was at an 
installfest and no one could successfully instal YDL on any machine 
that had been touched by Disk Utility version 10.4. It really doesn't 
matter whether the partitions are journaled or not. Even completely 
erasing a disk with Disk Utility 10.4 and trying to install YDL in free 
space won't work.

> Chris Gehlker wrote on 11/26/03, 9:01 AM:
>
>
> 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.
>
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