"Guide to Installation" my foot!

[Jason Stevens]

OK, it sounds like you are trying to just do a fresh install of YDL 3.0,
so you need to start by preparing your hard drive using a bootable Mac
OS install CD. Grab a paper clip, because you'll need it.

First, insert the Mac OS install CD1 and restart the computer with the C
key depressed. When you enter the Mac OS installer, access the Disk
Utility from one of the menus at the top of the screen (I think it's the
one just to the right of the Apple menu). You'll need to click to select
the drive(s) in question. This should probably include any disk or
partition other than the Mac OS install CD (since it can't be
initialized). Next, click on the Partition tab. If you plan to run a
Linux-only system, select 1 partition from the drop-down list. If you
need more partitions, select the appropriate number. You'll then need to
size each partition (if more than one) and select a format for each, and
whether you want to install OS 9 drivers (unnecessary if you won't be
installing OS 9).

For the Linux partition, you'll want to select Free Space. The name of
the partition will default to Extra. Then proceed by clicking the
Partition button. The process should only take a matter of seconds. When
it's done, assuming you won't be installing Mac OS, just exit the Disk
Utility and use a straightened paper clip to eject the CD out of the
drive. If you've not done this before, Apple CD drives have a little
hole somewhere on them into which you can insert a paper clip for
manually ejecting a disk.

Now that your disk is ready, insert the YDL install disk 1 into the CD
drive. You'll need to force the computer off by holding the power button
down for a few seconds. After the machine powers down, hold down the C
key and power the computer back on. You'll enter the YDL installer and
all will be grand.

Paljon onnea! Terveisin,

Jason

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 00:41, Beartooth wrote:
> 	All right, I bought the CDs, intending to install over the top 
> of 2.3 -- and sacrifice everything already there <gnash, grate, snarl>, 
> since there seems to be no option of preserving any, as for instance RH9 
> does. That's one crock already, though not a surprise. But 2.3 is so bad 
> at the multiple connections you need with a laptop that it's gotta be 
> done,
> 
> 	The accompanying book and pamphlet both insist that one use the
> so-called Guide to Installation, printed out from the Yellowdoglinux.com
> site. All I can find seems to be identical to the little pamphlet
> (called a Companion, not a guide), which came with the CDs, which
> insists that it is only an addendum. That's another and more disgusting 
> crock. Joseph Heller, are you YDL's silent partner??
> 
> 	So I decide to try to go ahead -- after all, they brag about how 
> easy it is, and how much like RH9 (which I have just installed on my 
> desktop). 
> 
> 	First I go read the manual and the non-guide "companion" --
> which tell me to start by repartitioning, using the apple install disk.
> So I go dig that out. When I get to something remotely resembling the
> place they tell me, a window labelled Select a Destination, there are
> images of hard drives labelled Mac OS X 10.3GB, share 1.0GB, and a faint
> image of a CD labelled Mac OS X Install CD 639MB
> 
> 	Now I'm supposed to double-click on the install CD. But if you
> put a cursor near it, you get a message saying "This disk is dimmed
> because it is read only" -- and if you double-click it anyway, nothing
> happens. You can't even get to the Utilities folder, let alone one
> inside it. Still another crock, and still getting worse.
> 
> 	All right, trying to get out of that, I go back and re-boot,
> with the C key held down till my arm about falls off, while the CD makes
> a huge racket, just as I did (and it did) before. That simply closes the
> loop, and gets me back to the dim disk. Still another crock.
> 
> 	So maybe it's just the ostensibly fine manual that's snafu'd. 
> Put in 3.0 Install 1 without reartitioning first; maybe that'll do it.
> 
> 	Of course they don't tell you you have to hold C again -- unless
> it's in that boot message, which is so tiny and goes by in seconds,
> anyway; so you waste still more time. But you do eventually get to
> "Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux" -- which tells you yet again to read the
> fine but non-extant Guide ...
> 
> 	[To Be Continued -- stay tuned]