Install crashes before partitioning

[David Hacker]

I wiped my disk clean and make 30 GB HFS+ and 30GB free space while  
booted from the OS X 10.3 install disk and installed OS X and then went  
right to the YDL CD's and done autopartition with no problem.  The main  
thing is that you have to make sure you leave the other as free space  
and do not format it in any way.
David C. Hacker, DVM
On Jul 5, 2004, at 5:00 PM, Joe Freeman wrote:

> I am an experienced Linux user, but a Mac and YDL newbie. We have a  
> PowerBook G4 12 (2003) on which we just did a fresh install of Mac OS  
> X 10.3.4, following the procedure outlined in "A Companion to  
> Installing Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1" to partition for half Mac OS X and  
> half YDL. When partitioning was ready to begin, the installer fails,  
> no matter which options were chosen. Our experience is similar to  
> this:
>
> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004- 
> January/011321.html
>
> This seems to be a common problem, according to the mailing lists. The  
> best hint I could find for a solution was given by Chris Gehlker:
>
>> 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.
>
> which is from this:
>
> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003- 
> November/010745.html
>
> My question is:
>
>   Is it still necessary for me to hunt down and install an older  
> version
>   of Disk Utility to get this install done, or is there now perhaps a
>   simpler solution?
>
> Everything we're doing here is utterly vanilla. I guess I expected  
> putting YDL on a new PowerBook alongside Mac  OS X would be  
> straightforward, especially since I had complete freedom to wipe out  
> the disk and install everything fresh on this brand new PowerBook.
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