can't partition HD for installation

[mascarasnake]

Hey, Mdean-

YDL is a distro of linux, NOT Mac OS or Windows. It is free both in 
price and in lisence. The majority of linux distros and apps are 
created and maintained by folks who do so for little or no financial 
reimbursement. They do it because they enjoy doing it - ergo, their 
responsibilty is not to you, the end user/customer, but to the 
project(s) they are working on and refining. To use an analogy, Don't 
get pissed at Jackson Pollock if you don't get Abstract Expressionism. 
He was too busy painting to explain such things.

If you purchased your YDL CDs, your money went to:
	3 Install CDs, 3 Source CDs.
	"Getting Started with Yellow Dog Linux" book.
	Yellow Dog Linux T-Shirt (with Supported box set only).
and ...
	Yellow Dog Linux sticker.
Probably about $80 worth of stuff.
You were also given the option to purchase tech support for roughly the 
price of a pizza and some beer.
Not A Bad Deal.

The guide works. It is just a little confusing on certain issues, as I 
tried to point out.

If you had followed the end of the line for the link I sent instead of 
stopping at the blue text for the link, (then Copy and Paste to your 
browser), you would have found that the link, indeed, did work. I found 
that this breaking of links happens frequently on this list. I don't 
know if it's a client or server issue, but it happens.

Linux is probably the most the most complex OS out there, with the 
steepest learning curve out there. It is not for the faint of heart. 
That's why the art world created Art Historians and YDL (along with 
other linux distros) created their mailing lists. We are here to help 
you out. If you have any questions, feel free to post them. If not, 
please, by all means, get drunk and bitch to your friends.

Wow, I got thru that with only one four letter word!

g'luck in your computing endeavors.

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	It's what you make it man
	Takes time
	A little bit
	A little bit more

			-The Minutemen

dontdrill@earthlink.net
mascarasnake@mac.com
On Apr 27, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Mdean wrote:

> this url doesn't work, and what's more, the instructions in that guide 
> don't work either.  I think I now know the reason for the "yellow 
> dog".  These distro jerks are too yellow to get their customers up and 
> running, so they are real dogs.
>
> mascarasnake wrote:
>
>> hey, Brent-
>>
>> your 7200 is an OldWorld machine which means you need to use BootX.
>>
>> download this pdf file:
>>     http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/installation/ydl3.0_guide- 
>> single.pdf
>> and follow the directions for OldWorld/BootX.
>>
>> When you format your drive for YDL (with Disk Utility), you need to  
>> format it as "unallocated"
>>
>> When you partition the drive (use disk druid) ignore the Bootstrap  
>> directions. OldWorld machines don't use a bootstrap
>> partition. Just create a "swap" partition (this is your  virtual 
>> memory  - safe to double your physical RAM) and a "/ " partition 
>> (root).
>>
>> this should get you thru the rest of the install.
>>
>> g'luck
>>
>> ----------
>>
>>     It's what you make it man
>>     Takes time
>>     A little bit
>>     A little bit more
>>
>>             -The Minutemen
>>
>> dontdrill@earthlink.net
>> mascarasnake@mac.com
>> On Apr 24, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Brent wrote:
>>
>>> I've checked the archives, but didn't see this particular issue... I 
>>>  was
>>> surprised - this seems like the perfect newbie question..
>>>
>>> I have an old 7200/90 that I am unmothballing. I picked up some 
>>> extra  RAM and
>>> a 4.2 gig hard drive to that I could make it a YDLinux machine. I'm  
>>> going to
>>> leave the 512 meg original HD as-is and leave MacOS 9.1 on it. The 
>>> RAM  and 4.2
>>> gig hard drive have been installed and are working fine. The 4.2 gig 
>>>  HD is
>>> going to be only linux.
>>>
>>> Now the problem - when I am working through the anaconda 
>>> installation,  after
>>> 4 or 5 screens  you come to the part of the installation where you  
>>> partition
>>> the hard drive. The automatic partition does NOT work. OK, no 
>>> problem,  I'll use
>>> disk druid. Didn't work - when I select a partition and try to 
>>> select  Apple
>>> Bootstrap from the File System Type, there was no Apple Bootstrap to 
>>>  select. In
>>> fact, there was only ext2, ext3, and swap.
>>>
>>> Then I backed out reformatted the HD with MacOS Drive Setup (about 
>>> 10  times
>>> using all the various formats HFS, HFS+, PPC Linux, MkLinux, etc),  
>>> then went
>>> back into anaconda to partition the drives, which I still cannot do.
>>>
>>> What format should I use in MacOS disk setup? What am I missing when 
>>>  it comes
>>> to configuring my drives during the initial install?
>>>
>>> Help?
>>>
>>> Thanks and sorry for the long post.
>>>
>>> Brent
>>> brent@ydl.net
>>>
>>>
>>>
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