Install trouble No hard disks found

[Leyba, Matt]

Thanks for your reply, but I don't think this is the source of my  
problem. My machine does not have 2 drives and is not a mirror door or  
wind tunnel G4 the YD page mentions. I pulled out a couple other spare  
machines I have and am having the exact same problem so I suspect that  
I am the problem. So I have now tried a G4 QuickSilver 733, a G4 400,  
and an old G3 Graphite iBook. I have and extra TiBook I'm going to try  
next.

My exact procedure is to boot from an OS 9 disk, create 2 partitions on  
the only drive in each of these machines. The first partition is  
Extended for OS X, the second is unallocated, I have made both  
partitions around 5G. I restart from the YD disk and go through the  
install until I get to the stage as mentioned before, No Hard Disks  
Found. I'm feeling pretty silly right now, it can't be this hard, I  
must be making a mistake.

BTW I ordered a new version too, the FTP site was sloooooooow.

Thanks for your help!

Mateo (YD challenged) Leyba


On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 02:37 PM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:

> Mr. Leyba:
>
> On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 02:11  PM, Leyba, Matt wrote:
>> To begin, I believe I have followed the install instructions to the  
>> letter, but I could be wrong. I have used an OS9 startup disk and  
>> utility to create three partitions on one HD, the first is 5G and is  
>> unallocated, the second is 6G Standard, and the third is 6G Extended.  
>>  I restart from the YD disk and can only get as far as selecting my  
>> keyboard, I am then told Partitioning Error, No Hard Disks Found.  
>> Where did I go wrong?
>
> Almost certainly, you have found the "Anaconda installer Dual Hard  
> Drive Bug." Yellow Dog offers two pages with solutions:
>
> <http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_3.0/dual-drive- 
> fix.shtml>
> <http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_3.0/dual-drive- 
> avoid.shtml>
>
>> G4 733 QS
>> YD 2.3 from original disk
>
> Even more certainly, you should install a more recent version of  
> Yellow Dog Linux! Version 3.0 is available from their FTP site, and  
> version 3.0.1 (which fixes the Anaconda installer bug you noted  
> earlier) should show up in a few weeks.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Best wishes,
> Clint
>
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> DOT net>
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