Install crashes at partition section

[Denis or Janet Jarvis]

I have had similar experience to Dan Walker. I have a 550MHz G4 with 
2 ATA disks, each with multiple partitions. The second disk is a 
mirror of the first to provide simple backup. Both contained bootable 
partitions of OS 9, OSX, YDL.

I installed Panther and all was OK. Then one of the disks had to be 
replaced and I could no longer boot into OS 9! Even re-installing OS 
9.1 from the original CD would not produce a bootable partition. I 
did eventually get a bootable OS 9, but only after recreating the new 
disk with OS 9 disk tools. Chris Gehlker reports that use of Panther 
Disk Utility prevents installation of YDL 3.0. It seems that it 
affects OS 9 also! With Panther, I restored the OSX partition from 
the second disk and still OS 9 was bootable. But now I cannot install 
YDL 3.0!

As an experiment, I tried installing YDL 2.2 from CD. I went as far 
as the pdisk  section to create partitions and this indicated the 
problem. The file system of the OS 9 partition is shown as "hfs", as 
expected. That for the Panther partition is shown as "none", 
presumably meaning that pdisk could not recognize it because Panther 
had modified something. I did create all the partition for YDL but 
YDL still 3.0 aborts.

Presumably, the problem with YDL 3.0 install is that, when Anaconda 
tries to create the initial list of partitions, it cannot deal with 
this unknown filesystem and aborts. The only way I can think of 
circumventing this is to go back and recreate the disk with OS 9 
tools and then install YDL 3.0 before it is touched by Panther tools. 
I would also, have to temporarily disconnect the second disk because 
it includes a "none" also. (Note that the second disk has YDL 2.3 and 
not 3.1.) Can anyone suggest a simpler way around the Anaconda abort?

Denis Jarvis
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