Cannot run install disk

[Norberto Quintanar]

I had a similar problem once when I tried to install Mandrake over
the YDL partition.  <--I know I know....

I used a partitioning tool that allowed me to zero out the YDL
partition and leave it free space, without messing with my mac os
side.  I'm trying to find the floppy it was on to tell you what
program it was.  I do not know if Mac OS 10 has a tool for you to
use, since I stopped using mac OS's at 8.1.

--- Charles Trois <charles.trois@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have run into big trouble with my hard drive.
> 
> The partition scheme on my iMac is this:
> 
> 14 Go unallocated, for Linux
> 5 Go HFS, for transfers
> 10 Go HFS+, for Mac OS9
> 10 Go HFS+, for Mac OS10.
> 
> With this setup, I have installed YDL 3.0.1 (more than once) from
> my own
> downloaded ISO, without any trouble.
> 
> In my latest session, I ran yum update, and then used Konstruct to
> install KDE 3.2. Everything was going well, when I ran Konstruct
> again to
> install KDevelop 3.0.1. Here, I don't know what happened; I had let
> the
> Konstruct program run, and, when I came back, it had logged out of
> X. I
> could not log in again and I could not reboot. The thing having
> become
> useless, I wanted to reinstall YDL.
> 
> The process of booting from the install disk began with "Welcome to
> Yellow
> Dog Linux", but did not get very far, only to the few lines reading
> (approximately) "input: USB HID" and then the text got white on
> blue (like
> in Kudzu) and announced
> 
> oops: kernel access of bad area, sig:11
> and
> install exited abnormally - received signal 11
> 
> and a few incoherent lines, and nothing.
> 
> The message about a "bad area" suggested to me that this was an
> affair of
> bad blocks, so I booted from a MacOS disk and used Disk Setup to
> wipe out
> the hard disk, check it for bad blocks (a very long job) and write
> the
> partitions again.
> 
> The result was nil: no change. I may add that choosing the
> text-install
> option did not make any difference, and that an attempt to install
> YDL 3.0
> gave the same result, except that there was no "white on blue"
> episode (a
> different treatment of Kudzu?). The Mac systems are unaffected.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Charles
> 
> 
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