YDL 3.01 on Second partition?
Tony Clark
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu Jan 1 21:11:00 2004
Excellent; I followed the instructions and deleted the second
partition. After a bit of fiddling to make it boot from the CD again,
I successfully installed YDL on the old 10GB partition by using the
'use free space' option. The only remaining issue is that yaboot
didn't have the MacOSX partition in its config, so to boot back into
OSX I had to use the startup DVD which has probably trashed the yaboot
in firmware. As I know nothing (yet) of YDL, can someone please point
me at how I'd configure yaboot to see the OSX partition and then how I
might re-flash with the yaboot config?
Many thanks,
Tony
On 30/12/2003, at 6:26 AM, Jeremy Warren wrote:
> Try the following link, it gives step by step info on how to perform
> what you want to do without having to wipe the whole drive.
>
> YMMV, as usual make sure you have a complete backup, performed at own
> risk etc etc,
>
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021119053614569
>
> But after performing this i ran into an additional problem on my 15"
> powerbook, the drive did not have OS9 drivers installed and would bomb
> with an error when i tried to partition so i ended up having to wipe
> out the whole drive.
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Jeremy
>
> On Dec 29, 2003, at 1:19 AM, Tony Clark wrote:
>
>> Hmmm... Good news about the second partition. I just had a quick
>> look and told the installer to use the available free space. The
>> second partition under OSX was mounted as 'Untitled 2' so the
>> installer barfed saying there was no free space. So I booted from
>> the install OSX disk and tried to delete the Untitled partition, but
>> it then grows the main partition to be the whole disk... Is there a
>> way I can delete a partition without growing the other and just leave
>> the unused space for the YDL install. I'm quite familiar with Linux
>> installs under x86, but this is my first mac...
>>
>> T
>>
>> On 29/12/2003, at 4:13 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 21:10, Tony Clark wrote:
>>>> Bummer about the power management and airport; I mostly sit in the
>>>> back
>>>> room and work on airport. Still; I guess it could come one day...
>>>>
>>>> So did you install on the first or second partition of your drive?
>>>> I'm
>>>> already well set up with OSX on the first and not keen to re-build
>>>> the
>>>> thing again for OSX on the second partition as per the
>>>> instructions...
>>>
>>> OS X was already installed, so it is on the first partition of
>>> course.
>>> Linux resides comfortably in partitions 3 and 4. Partitioning is
>>> just
>>> like in x86, almost. I just told yellowdog to do an automatic
>>> partition, using free space. Now I get the boot loader prompt that I
>>> can hit x for os x, or l for linux.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I guess its time to dive in...
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help,
>>>>
>>>> TOny
>>>>
>>>> On 29/12/2003, at 1:56 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 19:59, Tony Clark wrote:
>>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I had a bit of a search on the lists, but nothing much came up on
>>>>>> this.
>>>>>> Is there a reason I can't install YDL on my second Mac
>>>>>> partition? I
>>>>>> have a PB G4 12" with 10.3 on the first partition and a spare 10GB
>>>>>> partition for a form of Linux. I'd like to put YDL on it, but the
>>>>>> docs
>>>>>> all seem to insist on it going on the first which is a bit of a
>>>>>> pain
>>>>>> given that I have a neatly installed 10.3 and all my apps on the
>>>>>> first
>>>>>> (larger, of course) partition.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a PB 12" 1 OS X 10.3 partition. Just make sure you have the
>>>>> latest iso images that can deal with 10.3's partitioning. Works
>>>>> rather
>>>>> well.
>>>>>
>>>>> The only showstopper on the 12" is that there is *no* support
>>>>> (nada,
>>>>> none) for any power management at all. No sleep, no control over
>>>>> the
>>>>> screen brightness or anything. The CPU runs at full speed (no
>>>>> /proc
>>>>> control over CPU speed in the 12" either) and the CPU fan is on
>>>>> full-time. You'll get about 60 minutes of battery life. In short,
>>>>> it's
>>>>> pretty useless to use as a real laptop. Hopefully this will be
>>>>> remedied
>>>>> in the near future. Other than that, and the fact that Broadcom is
>>>>> being a complete retard about releasing specs for drivers on their
>>>>> airport extreme (which will most likely never be supported under
>>>>> linux),
>>>>> OS X and linux will get along just fine. I'm typing this on my
>>>>> yellowdog install right now.
>>>>>
>>>>> Michael
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any help appreciated!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tony
>>>>>>
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