INSTALL TERMINATES WITH 1 MINUTE LEFT!!

[john gardiner]

Thanks.

So I went back and editing the partitions to have the /root within the 
first 8GB (just after the Apple bootstrap and before the swap...total 
of all these <8GB). I then had the /home in a 9GB partition after that.

Again the install appeared to go fine. This time ALL packages were 
installed. Started the post install config...then it crashed again. It 
wrote "failed on XSet Input focus" about 200 times across the screen, 
then NONE, NONE, then terminated etc.....

My OSX is in the block AFTER the first 19GB or so. It boots fine.
I have a Classic partition in a final 1.5GB partition.
I set up the bootloader to use this OSX but to use an old OS9.0 on a 
second slave hard drive (for reasons to do with later access to a 
necessary application on this which seems to be pretty flaky, so want 
to leave it alone, but be able to boot to it when needed).

So, can OSX being in a partition AFTER Linux but AFTER the first 8GB be 
a problem (given it boots itself OK), or is it a problem to tell the 
bootloader to boot old OS9 on a second hard drive?

After having installs on an old powerbook and a new iBook both go 
perfectly, this one is turning into a saga!

Thanks

John

On 7 May 2004, at 06:57, 
yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com wrote:

>
> Message: 1
> From: "David C. Hacker, DVM" <dhacker@westriv.com>
> Subject: Re: INSTALL TERMINATES WITH 1 MINUTE LEFT!!
> Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 13:40:12 -0500
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> It is not just 8Gb limitation.  The boot partition HAS to be within the
> FIRST 8GB of the hard drive.  I don't think this is the reason the
> installer crashed though.  My install went fine and yaboot came up but
> it wouldn't boot my kernel because it wasn't in the first 8GB of the
> hard drive which OpenFirmware recognizes on these older systems.  I had
> to split my first 8GB up and put 4GB for OS X  2GB for / linux root.
> and 2 GB for OS 9 then I put other partitions farther in the disk for
> /home and /usr and /var.
>
> David C. Hacker, DVM
> 212 N 1st St #2
> New Salem, ND 58563
> (701) 843-8179
> On May 6, 2004, at 9:36 AM, Norberto Quintanar wrote:
>
>>
>> --- john gardiner <?> wrote:
>>> Failure during install.
>>>
>>> I was installing YDL 3.0.1 on a G3 B&W Mac. It already has OSX and
>>> Classic in partitions 2 and 3. There is 20GB free space for Linux
>>> install as the first partition. Install selection was:
>>>
>>> - Workstation, plus customized for most extras (about a 5.8GB
>>> install)
>>> - It installs fine up to the last 2 packages of CD3...so 40 minutes
>>> of
>>> sitting watching! I was just watching it tick out the last 1 minute
>>> it
>>> had displayed as time left!!!!!
>>> - It then jumps to text and spurts out a kill signal, install
>>> terminated abnormally message and you may now reboot message.
>>> - it can then only reboot direct to OSX. No yaboot!! So I have i
>>> guess
>>> 99% of the  OS installed, but does yaboot go in last? As this is
>>> the
>>> second run through, facing another 40 mins sitting there is too
>>> much
>>> (as it is a machine in an office way from mine and I have to move
>>> about
>>> between CDs!)
>>>
>>> IS there any way to pick up a part install and complete it!?? OSX
>>> Disk
>>> Utility can see (greyed out) the two main Linux partitions and
>>> indeed
>>> they have lots of data on them....I am loath to have to start yet
>>> again!
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> NO!! oops I had caps lock on ;)
>>
>> Anyway, you are experiencing the 8gb free space dillema.  You need to
>> divide the 20gb partition into two partitions, one being  less than
>> 8gb.  The other one being whatever you want it to be i.e. storage
>> etc...  But you will have to reinstall.  Sorry.
>>
>>
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