Installing YDL 3.0 without re-initializing disk

[Ron Smith]

Sorry, but you do *not* want to try it my way. =(

I must have gotten lucky the first time because it definitely worked 
for me, but I just tried it again, I was going to "unallocate" my 
shared partition, reboot to make sure everything still worked, then 
reformat the shared partition back to HFS. This time it did wipe out 
the entire disk when I clicked the initialize button. (No big deal to 
me, I was willing to take the risk because I want to reinstall YDL 
anyway).

Sorry to get your hopes up. It sounds like your best option is to use 
pdisk, as someone else suggested.

-Ron

On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 01:48 PM, Tyler Kelly wrote:

> 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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