Install Issues (YDL version 3.0.1)

[Charles Trois]

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> Message: 9
> From: Irena and Richard Jenkins <rjenkins@alphalink.com.au>
> Subject: Install Issues (YDL version 3.0.1) Long Post - Please Read!
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 23:03:34 +1000
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
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> Hello people...
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> For some little time I have been trying to install YDL on an iMac machine=
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> Let me give you some of the background.
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> iMac 350MHz (slot-loading cdrom)
> Memory enhanced to 256Meg
> MacOS 9.0 installed on first partition
> 128Meg of swap partition organised
> 30 Meg of boot partition organised (HFS) (formatted by Mandrake installer=
)
> approximately 3.2 Gig of ext2 partition for install
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> Software to be installed:   YDL version 3.0.1 [sirrius] (taken from a loc=
al
> server).  Date of the file appears to be 11/11/2003.
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> I wanted to use the previous partitions ... so some work with DiskDruid
> resulted in the following...
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> /hda9        3009 Meg       Apple (HFS)
> /hda10                  30 Meg       Apple Bootstrap
> //hda11                128Meg          Linux Swap
> /hda12              3362 Meg        Root File system (format as ext2)
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I am surprised that you are meeting such difficulties in installing YDL. I
have done a lot of silly things with my G4 iMac (and been punished for
them), but I have *never* had any trouble installing or re-installing YDL
3.0.1.

>From your message, I suspect that your partitioning is not right. For your
information, here is part of my partition map, as given by pdisk:

 #:                type name              length   base     ( size )
 9:     Apple_Bootstrap untitled            2048 @ 1544     (  1.0M)
10:           Apple_HFS sans titre 2    10485760 @ 28560039 (  5.0G)
11:           Apple_HFS sans titre 3    20971520 @ 39045799 ( 10.0G)
12:           Apple_HFS sans titre 4    20005258 @ 60017319 (  9.5G)
13:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled        14680064 @ 3592     (  7.0G)
14:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled        13352960 @ 14683656 (  6.4G)
15:     Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap              523423 @ 28036616 (255.6M)
16:          Apple_Free Extra                 23 @ 80022577

(1 to 8 are Apple system partitions that do not concern us here).

To get that, I followed the instructions found in the "companion to
installing", like this.

1. After booting from an Apple disk, I used the disk tool to reformat the
drive; I gave the first partition the size required to accommodate all the
Linux stuff and marked it as "unallocated"; it bore the number 9.

Then I wrote the Apple partitions: number 10 is HFS, intended for exchanges
between Linux and Mac (perhaps not so useful now that Linux supports
HFSPlus); 11 and 12 are HFSPlus, respectively for Mac OS 9 and 10.

To conclude this first part, I reinstalled the two Mac systems in their
proper places.

2. Now comes the Linux bit. After booting from the YDL disk, I went through
the various easy steps of the GUI installer until I came to the formatting
part. There I had to edit the large unallocated partition, splitting it int=
o
bootstrap, / and /home (both ext3), and swap, and saving the result. In cas=
e
of reinstall, I just have to reformat the / partition.

The rest is quite easy; after installing the various RPMs and configuring
the three-way bootloader, the system rebooted and was ready for use.

If you do something like this (with such modifications as suit your needs),
I am pretty sure that you will be all right. I understand that the importan=
t
point is that bootstrap, then Linux, should be put just after the Apple
system partitions.=20

Good luck.

Charles