Old World Mac install woes

[Russell T. Brunet]

I encountered this problem when trying to install on my G4 to a scsi drive.
When I switched to a three gig ide drive, it worked fine.


>I'm installing YDL 2.3 on my Power Macintosh 6500/250 with 32 meg of
>RAM and a 4 gig hard disk. (I know, the RAM tally leaves something to
>be desired. It's on order....)
>
>Per the instructions, I first wiped the drive, and created several
>partitions. The space I intended to use for Linux was declared
>"unused." The second chunk of disk space is formatted HFS and contains
>MacOS 9.1. This is per the doc, mind you, which specifies that MacOS
>NOT be the first partition on the disk if you have to use BootX.
>
>In the YDL installer, I defined my linux partitions in the "unused"
>space as follows...
>
>/boot      10 mb
>/              3 gig
>swap     256 meg
>
>After I commit these changes, the installer attempts to begin
>formatting the various linux partitions. At this point, the installer
>tells me a fatal error has occurred, then it freezes and the machine
>reboots. Completely. Every single time.
>
>Making this problem EVEN more frustrating is that you can't (documented
>bug from ydl.com) format partitions created outside the YDL isntaller
>session. SO... To attempt this again I have start the installer again,
>delete the old partitions, then re-start the machine, then re-start the
>installer again to re-create the linux partitions.
>
>Has anybody else encountered this? Must all linux partitions exist
>contiguously on the disk? Right now, the order is /boot, /, MacOS, then
>swap. Is this my problem?
>
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