[ydl-gen] Firewire install question

[Steven Didier]

Kai, Yes it is  a firewire drive, yes I did select "install firewire"
pressing TAB does not bring up the firewire option.
I am running Ubuntu in another partition on my internal HD and it recognizes
the drive, so I went so far as to format one of the partitions with ext3. It
made no difference, the installer still doesn't recognize the drive.
-- 
Steven Didier



> From: Kai Staats <kstaats at terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Organization: Terra Soft Solutions
> Reply-To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics
> <yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:17:36 -0700
> To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics
> <yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] Firewire install question
> 
> 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
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