Installing YDL 3.0 on a Mac G3

[Olaf Olson]

Gosh no, I was merely looking at it from the "don't format it first" 
standpoint, like we are told on the Old World Macs. If you are going to 
erase what's there, thus allowing you to install in the available space, 
don't pre-format the disk, as this means there  isn't any available disk 
space.

Olaf

Andrew wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 23:59, Olaf Olson wrote:
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>>(...) I think you'll need to erase the disk and leave it blank - unformatted and try 
>>again to load YDL.
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>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)
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>-Andrew
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