Grrrr. How do I get this installed?

[Simon Mushi]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 devilc@cox.net wrote:

> Computer I'm trying to install on:
> 
> iMac 350  blueberry slotload  happily running 9.1 until I decided to give 
> YDL a whirl.

Why not give the Knoppix distro a try?! You can download the CD and just
put it in and it will give you a test drive of linux without even touching
your hard drive.

Best

Simon
 > 
> What goes wrong:
> 
> 1) Despite the fact that I select the graphical installer, at the very end I 
> get a message about X server failing and am kicked into the text 
> installer.  [Hoo boy, talk about making a baaaad impression on 
> somebody who just shelled out for the disks and (useless) manual. If I 
> had wanted the frikken text installer, I would've selected the frikken text 
> installer!]
> 
> 2) Auto partion fails because I do not specify a root partition.  [Hello?  
> It's called AUTOpartition.  Like, isn't it supposed to take care of all that 
> crap AUTOmatically?]  If it doesn't automatically set up a root/boot/swap 
> arrangement, WTF is it for?
> 
> 3) The companion to installing tells you what to do in the GUI version of 
> Disk Druid, but gives no clue what to do when you've been put eyes 
> front, trousers down by the text installer.  It talks about "apple 
> bootstrap" and I do not see those words anywhere on my screen.
> 
> [BTW, I do tech writing as a large component of my job.  The words "Piss 
> Poor" do not begin to describe the book and install guide.]
> 
> 4) In DD I get
> /dev/hda
>   dev/hda1  (0mb in size, mount point N/A.  Which I cannot edit because 
> it's the apple partition map)
>   dev/hda2  (6532mb hfs format, mount point N/A)
>   free space (0 mb in size.  I've tried to change the size of this, but none 
> of my guesses work.  I've tried calling the mount point here / but it's not 
> buying that, either.)
> 
> 5) WTF is a mount point?  
> 
> 6) Because I don't have a / parition to install on, the installer does not go 
> any further.
> 
> Would somebody, please, in excruciating detail, explain to me what I 
> need to do to tell the OS where to go and live?  I'm not even trying to 
> make it share the disk with Os X.  I was going to be nice to YDL and give 
> it it's very own home, and the frikkin dog just bit me.
> 
> -Katherine-
> 
> 
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