Old World Mac install woes

[lowell]

Allow 100M for boot.
HTH

Tom Marsh wrote:

> 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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