partitioning volumes

[Andrew McVinnie]

Since you are trying to use "Disk Utility"  I assume you are using 
Mac OS X.  I find that "Drive Setup" of Mac OS 9 works better.  You 
must boot up from the OS 9 disk to run Drive Setup so that you can 
partition the drive and leave one of the partitions as 
"Un-allocated".  The "Un-allocated" setting for a partitions format 
can only be done at the point when you actually physically partition 
the drive.  If there is another way to designate the drive as 
"Un-allocated"  I don't know it.

Good luck
Andrew McVinnie

>Thanks for the tip. Now here's my next question. How can i erase the 
>partition and leave it unused. Disk Utility will only let me format it 
>as Mac OS standard or extended. Is there some way to do it from the 
>command line?
>
>
>> 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
>
>Tavis
>It's not a typo. There really is no R in my name. Blame my parents.
>
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