Panther

[Steven Didier]

Mr. Vawter,

I have an external firewire drive that is an image of my OS 10.3 drive
when I installed YDL 3.0.1 onto my 15" Pwbook I booted from the firewire
drive to partiion the internal drive so as to make room for Yellow Dog.
Worked great for me.
Steve Didier


On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 09:07, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
> 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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