YDL 3.0 on Mac OS X

Clinton MacDonald yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:38:05 -0500


Paolo:

On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 02:57  PM, Paolo wrote:
> I have a TIbook g4 with mac os X 10.2.6 installed on a one and only 
> partition. I still have to understand whether I'm obliged to 
> initialize the hard drive with a mac os utility in order to create an 
> ad hoc partition for YDL or I can do it thru disk druid,  while 
> installing YDL, having it using the free space on the mac os X 
> partition.

Yes, you must repartition the drive and reinstall the Mac OS (either OS 
9, X, or both) using the Macintosh installation disks. There is no way 
to "shrink" the existing Mac OS HFS+ partition.

Best wishes,
Clint

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