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[Andrew McVinnie]

Hi Travis,

It sounds as if you made an easily made mistake during the partition 
and format stage.

Yes, you make 3 partitions, but only format 2 of them as HFS+, leave 
the third as "Un-used"  then the YDL installer will see it and allow 
you to format it for Linux.

Hope that helps.
Andrew McVinnie

>Hello,
>I'm trying to install Yellow Dog 2.1 on a powerbook G3 400 lombard 
>(pre-firewire). I have partitioned my hard drive into three HFS+ 
>partitions. One for OS X, one for OS 9, and one for Linux. I start up 
>from the YD cd, edit the mount point to be / on the linux partition, but 
>when it get to the next step i get a fatal error. Can anyone walk me 
>through this?
>Tavis
>"Never trust a man in a blue trench coat... Never drive a car when 
>you're dead"
>	-Tom Waits
>
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