Installing YDL 3.0 without re-initializing disk

[Tyler Kelly]

Ron,

Could you explain your procedure in more detail?  I tried what you did, but after booting with the OS 9 CD and opening Drive Utility, it showed a list of the partitions, but I did not see how to change the partition type to "unallocated."  The only option was to click the Initialize button, which I was afraid to do, for fear it would wipe out my entire hard disk.  


On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 01:36PM, Ron Smith <ronsmith@ydl.net> wrote:

>I was able to use Apples Drive Utility to do what you want to do. All I 
>did was boot with the Mac OS CD and open the Drive Utility. I selected 
>the partition I wanted to use and changed it to "unallocated." and then 
>installed YDL on it. I think the main thing is to not resize any of the 
>partitions. If you leave them all the same size, the Drive Utility 
>should leave the unchanged ones alone and they should still be in tact.
>
>I backed up everything important off of the other partitions because I 
>didn't know if it was really going to work or not, but it did. If you 
>try this, please let me know your results, I would hate to give this 
>advice and have it not work for someone.
>
>-Ron
>
>On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 10:49 AM, Tyler Kelly wrote:
>
>> partition with Apple's OS 9 Drive Utility -- which does not allow you 
>> to delete partitions without re-initializing your disk.  I would, if 
>> possible, like to avoid having to re-install my entire OS X system.
>
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