installation problems

[Derick Centeno]

> 
> From: "Markus Tarköy" <markus.tarkoey at bernabiotech.com>
> Date: 2005/02/24 Thu AM 03:48:48 EST
> To: yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: installation problems
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> unfortunately I trashed my very reliable installation of YDL 3.0.1 on my
> beige G3 (400 MHz Sonnet G4 Upgrade, Radeon Mac 7000, 768MB RAM) sitting on
> my /dev/hda14 partition. I do not recall that I used later on FWB on this
> drive, however, every attempt to install ydl, be it 2.3, 3.0, 3.0.1, fails
> at the step where you choose your partition methodology. As I recall this
> bug has to do with foreign non-Apple drivers installed on the drive. I am a
> little bit frustrated because when I install a distribution -- whose name I
> do not want to mention -- on this drive, it goes without any problems.
> Seems to me that anaconda has still some flaws here.
> 
> My question now is how can I install ydl on this partition again? I am not
> eager to wipe the whole drive. Any suggestions?
> I thought of the following:
> 
> 1) Use a second drive formatted with Apple's drive utility, make 2
> partitions. One with a System 9, Boot X, ramdisk image, bootkernel. The
> second one free, unallocated. Boot from this drive.
> 
Hi Markus:
My own choice would be to go for 1.  A different option would be to just let
OS 9 exist on it's own drive and YDL exist on it's own drive.  That way 
whatever problem occurs can be isolated to just those drives.  This is an older 
strategy not currently too popular, but I've used it successfully for years 
within the standard model (original) 233Mhz beige G3 Minitower.  I replaced the 
older Apple HD with a 30 GB IDE HD and everything's worked without a hitch. 

Best wishes....Derick.