partitioning volumes

[Eric D.]

on 17/6/02 18:59, Adrian Winnard at adrian.w@easynet.co.uk wrote:

> On Monday 17 June 2002 02:25, you wrote:
>> I don't think you need to leave it unused. Format the third partition
>> as HFS (Mac OS Standard) just to be on the safe side. When you run the
>> YDL installer CD you can choose which partition to use (make sure you
>> pick the right one because you'll lose everything on it ;).
> 
> I believe that in theory you are correct ... but I found that it would
> not work unless I started out with the disk space designated as
> unallocated before formatting with the YDL installer.

Interesting. On my B&W G3 I installed YDL 2.1 (and 2.2) over a 1.5 GB HFS+
formatted partition (and, it was used as such beforehand). For me the
installer "destroyed" the pre-existing HFS+ partition and created the HFS
boot, the root and swap "sub-"partitions.

Eric.