YDL Install Setup Advice Needed

[Michael Loose]

1. Backup your data!

2. Jumper your OS-drive as "slave" and connect it to the second port of
the primary IDE. (should be at first now)

3. Connect the empty drive to the first port of the primary IDE.

4. Boot from YDL-CD and choose "automatic partitioning" and "use
existing free space".

I haven't had this configuration on a Mac yet, but assuming that 
YDL behaves similar to Redhat, you partitions should be recogniced
without a clue. 

Don't forget to relabel your MacOS-partitions to "macos" and "macosx"
during installation (you will be prompted to do so).


michael

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 05:44, Mark Srebnik wrote:
>     Hi,
> 
>     Just got YDL3 today and anxious to install and get rolling with Linux.
> 
>     My current setup on my G4 has one 120 GB hard drive with 2 partitions:
>     (1) 14.5 GB partition with OSX 10.2.6 and OSX apps
>     (1) 100 GB partition with OS9 and other apps/documents
> 
>     Figured that it would be best to leave this drive alone. So bought
>     another 120 GB drive on sale the other day to use partly YDL and the
>     rest for more OSX stuff.
> 
>     So trying to decide what's the easiest/best way to get setup as I've now
>     read that it's best to have the YDL drive as the master. This means
>     switching my current drive to slave.
> 
>     So should I
> 
>     A. Put in the new drive first as slave to prepare partitions using OSX
>        Drive Setup. Then switch them around and install YDL? Or
> 
>     B. Pull out current OSX master drive and install new drive as master and
>        use Disk Druid only for setup or do I need to use OSX Drive Setup
>        first if I want to create a partition that's usable in OSX and then
>        Disk Druid. Then do YDL install on Linux partition. Then reinstall my
>        current Mac drive as slave or
> 
> 
>     C. Other option??
> 
> 
>     Hope this makes sense!
> 
>     Appreciate any advice or tips on getting this setup....
> 
>     Will try to contribute to this list when I have something to offer
>     others too.
>     
>     Excited to venture into Linuxland...
> 
>     Regards,
> 
>     Mark
> 
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