[ydl-gen] Firewire install question

[Kai Staats]

On Friday 17 March 2006 13:18, Steven Didier wrote:
> I bought the geek edition disk set 4.1 rather than continuing with the
> hassle of the downloads. I¹m having problems getting the installer to
> recognize my external drive. I have the drive formatted with 2 partitions:
> the first one marked free and the second extended using the disk utility on
> my system restore disk. I have been through innumerable  partitons on this
> drive. Each time I partition it either as a single free space, extended 1
> or 2 partitions etc. both my G5 iMac and my TiPower Book recognize the
> drive and the extended aprtition. But YDL installer refuses to recognize
> the drive. Any ideas cause I¹m fresh out?

1) I assume this is a FireWire drive?

2) Did you select the FireWire capable kernel from the Installer's first 
screen (white text on a black bg)?

... press TAB at this screen for full options.

kai