Install on a second drive

[Derick Centeno]

On Jul 10, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Marvin Weide wrote:

> Thank you for your quick reply. When I boot Yellow Dog holding down 
> the "C",
> YD asks to erase the drive! (I assume it means my internal with OS not 
> the
> second drive) My real question is how do I get YD to install on the 
> second
> drive partition 1?

Hi Marvin:
Details ... always, details.

OK. To the point:

The "c" key is depressed as the Mac boots up.  The YDL installation 
disk will be accessed by yaboot, if it is in your drive.  IF it is not 
in your drive yaboot should take you to the YDL that is already 
installed.  You should not depress the "Ctrl -c" key combination within 
YDL or any Linux or unix as it could be construed to be "Ctrl c" which 
means quit everything or in some cases wipe out everything.

Along with what I explained before, YDL cannot be installed into any 
partition which it doesn't see as existing or available.  This means 
that from the Mac OS you had to use Apple's Disk Utility to create a 
Free partition which would have destroyed ALL partitions which means 
that BEFORE even this step you should have backed up your Mac OS and 
all the documents there.  YDL will see that Free partition and use it 
to create Linux partitions in various amounts; you can control this 
best manually within YDL during the install process before mount points 
are assigned.  If you are completely baffled, I recommend getting the 
YDL manuals published by Terra Soft which discuss the necessary details 
as to what each partition is necessary and where the mount points 
should be placed, etc.  If you are not designing or programming 
something completely unique requiring extreme tolerances of accuracy 
regarding where exactly on your drive the mount point is placed; you 
could allow YDL to automatically install itself.  However, you still 
need to have had created the Free partitions prior to this.

The Free partition should be your second partition on any drive.  
Unless you mean how do you create Free partition on the second drive.  
The directions for creating a Free partition are pretty much the same 
for any drive from within using the Apple Disk Utility.  Naming the 
mount points and setting the sizes are the problems faced and resolved 
during the YDL installation process just before the various linux 
packages are selected to be installed.  YDL 4 should be able to run 
from either USB or Firewire drives; if you are fortunate you'll have a 
drive with both ports.  Check with Terra Soft Solutions; check their 
website.

Best wishes....