yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #583 - 5 msgs

[Grant]

On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 02:01 PM, 
yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

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>    1. Re: yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #578 - 5 msgs (Grant Lenahan)
>    2. Literally screaming in frustration (devilc@cox.net)
>    3. Re: yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #578 - 5 msgs (Norberto 
> Quintanar)
>    4. Re: Re: yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #578 - 5 msgs 
> (devilc@cox.net)
>    5. Re: yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #578 - 5 msgs (Chaz McGarvey)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 11:38:29 -0400
> From: Grant Lenahan <gfl1@optonline.net>
> Subject: Re: yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #578 - 5 msgs
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
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>
> On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 11:28 AM,
> yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:
>
>>
>>> If you want only YDL, then you format the whole thing as "free space"
>>
>> Yes, but HOW?!!!!
>>
> See my original note to you.
>
>> I have just taken a guess and have told the OS X disk utility to
>> format the
>> file as Unix file system.
>
> Not quite.  As I wrote earlier, you do use disk utility, but you format
> it not as HFS, nto as HFS+, not as UNIX, but rather as "free space" (in
> some later versions this is called "unallocated", but I presume you'll
> figure that out).  If you need Disk Utility instructions, feel free to
> email me or get info from Apple's knowledge base.
>
> Bottom line is you DONT want it formatted, just partitioned.  YDL does
> the formatting.
>
> Grant
>
>
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> Message: 2
> From: <devilc@cox.net>
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Literally screaming in frustration
> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:44:45 -0400
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> After using the OS X disk utilities to format the disk into a Unix file
> system, because "undefined" is not an option and HFS isn't working, no
> matter what I do, the install crashes.
>
> Autopartition .... big long gobbly gook message which it tells me to 
> save
> to a FLOPPY and then copy and paste in an email to terra soft.
>
> Disk Druid ... same damn thing.
>
> ---
>
> At this point, fuck it, I'm going to try for a dual boot system and 
> see if I
> have any luck with that.  It's just that OS X is going to be a 3 hour 
> long
> install on this imac.
>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 08:51:14 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Norberto Quintanar <nquintanar@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #578 - 5 msgs
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> You can lead a horse to water.......
>
>
> --- Grant Lenahan <gfl1@optonline.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 11:28 AM,
>> yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> If you want only YDL, then you format the whole thing as "free
>> space"
>>>
>>> Yes, but HOW?!!!!
>>>
>> See my original note to you.
>>
>>> I have just taken a guess and have told the OS X disk utility to
>>> format the
>>> file as Unix file system.
>>
>> Not quite.  As I wrote earlier, you do use disk utility, but you
>> format
>> it not as HFS, nto as HFS+, not as UNIX, but rather as "free space"
>> (in
>> some later versions this is called "unallocated", but I presume
>> you'll
>> figure that out).  If you need Disk Utility instructions, feel free
>> to
>> email me or get info from Apple's knowledge base.
>>
>> Bottom line is you DONT want it formatted, just partitioned.  YDL
>> does
>> the formatting.
>>
>> Grant
>>
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> Message: 4
> From: <devilc@cox.net>
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: Re: yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #578 - 5 msgs
> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 12:00:53 -0400
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
>> Bottom line is you DONT want it formatted, just partitioned.  YDL
> does
>> the formatting.
>
>
> Aha!  And I just found "free space" under the Partition Tab in the Disk
> Utility menu.  (Where I had not gone before because the YDL book says
> that using the Apple Partiton tool is a bad thing.)
>
> Thank you ... this may get somewhere after all!
>
> -Katherine-
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 11:19:51 -0600
> Subject: Re: yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #578 - 5 msgs
> From: Chaz McGarvey <chaz@brokenzipper.com>
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
>
> On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 10:00 AM, <devilc@cox.net> wrote:
>
>>> Bottom line is you DONT want it formatted, just partitioned.  YDL
>> does
>>> the formatting.
>>
>>
>> Aha!  And I just found "free space" under the Partition Tab in the 
>> Disk
>> Utility menu.  (Where I had not gone before because the YDL book says
>> that using the Apple Partiton tool is a bad thing.)
>>
>> Thank you ... this may get somewhere after all!
>
> Exactly where I told you it was in my step-by-step instructions.
> Congratulations.
>
> - Chaz
>
>
>
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