Panther

[Clinton MacDonald]

Mr. Vawter:

Tom Vawter wrote:
> I plan on installing YDL 3.0.1 on my 12" Powerbook which will not boot
> on anything prior to Panther.
> 
> But according to the YDL support page, I would need to first format with
> Jaguar for the partitions to be acceptable to YDL.  Of course, this
> can't be done.

One trick you can use, if you have a second Firewire capable Mac, is to 
boot the 12 inch PowerBook into "target disk" mode:

<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583>
<http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/target_disk_mode_ben.html>

This will allow the second Mac to see your 12 inch PowerBook as a 
removable drive, which you can format from the Jaguar disks.

I hope this works for you!

Best wishes,
Clint

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