Installing YDL 3.0 on a Mac G3

Andrew yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Jun 15 12:58:01 2004


On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 23:59, Olaf Olson wrote:

> (...) I think you'll need to erase the disk and leave it blank - unformatted and try 
> again to load YDL.

Are you talking about zero-data format? I *think I remember* anaconda
provide this option when using disk druid (?) (manual partitioning). It
take a loooooong time but is clearly the best way to wipe-clean a disk.
Long time mean about an hour per GB. That is how fast my G3/233 could
perform a zeroing format. I would do that before setup a Linux only
Macintosh computer. Maybe even reset PRAM (not sure if it is still a
good thing to do on new-worlds)

-Andrew