Very newbie to YDL!

[Chris Gehlker]

On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 12:42 PM, N0DIH wrote:

> I tried to install YDL 3.0 on my 8500/G4-450/44GB/18GB/512M ram.  The 
> 2 SCSI
> drives are on a 2940 SCSI card flashed to Mac, and it would not see 
> the 18GB
> at all, and all it wanted to do was format the 44GB drive, which is a 
> good
> active HFS partition that I cannot erase at this time.  I had a 500 MB 
> drive
> on the external SCSI but it didn't like the size.
>
> Do I need to add a large clean drive for YDL so it can have it's way?  
> I am
> fearful of losing Mac stuff that I have on the HFS.
>
> Does anyone have advice?

Don't mess with YDL 3.0 on a system with two spindles. It's too 
upsetting when your HFS+ drive goes away. The 3.0.1 version is 
available on CD.  I suppose  the ISOs will be  up soon.