installation problems

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Sorry, but wiping the drive is really the only practical way to restore
the Apple drivers. On OldWorld machines, the Apple drivers are better
anyway because they contain patches to the driver for the SCSI chipset
they use. There are probably similar advantages to using their ATA drivers.

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:48:48 +0100, Markus Tarköy wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 2) Install ydl on the second partition.
> 
> 3) rsync everything to the first drive to /dev/hda14
> 
> How does that sound?
> Cheers    Markus
> 
> 
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