partitioning questions

[David Froseth]

Thanks Derick for the quick response.  It helped.  From now on I will 
only do this critical setup manually.  More questions.  I understand 
that the untitled spaces are linux partitions that OS X does not 
recognize.  Initially when I tried to manually input the partition info 
I was asked for a mount point.  The manual partitioning would not 
continue unless I fill this in.  Page 5 of the "A Companion to Install 
YDL" does not tell you what to do.  I want to make sure I use up all of 
the free space and also put the linux partitions in front of the OS X 
and OS 9 partitions.  Any explaination on how to control  the spot on 
the hard drive where the partitions reside?  Thanks for any advice.  I 
found some disk druid tutorials on the net which are geared to Red Hat,  
I will study them to see if I can figure this out more.  Thanks again.

Dave



Derick Centeno wrote:

> Hi Dave:
> General rule in IT, never let a computer do anything like partitioning 
> manually unless you know exactly what it is going to do.
>
>  Instead of trusting Disk Druid you could trust yourself to partition 
> your system manually and you would get then, exactly what you want and 
> where.
>
> Regarding Free Space: that is the space hopefully which you created 
> using Apple Utility so that when it created partitions for OS9/OS X it 
> also created a partition called Untitled which within Linux is read as 
> Free Space.  That free space is divided up further following standard 
> instructions provided elsewhere by TSS for getting a drive ready so 
> that it is partitioned for YDL.  The application used to actually do 
> the partitioning is pdisk.  The directories which Linux uses are also 
> created with pdisk.  The one other application you could trust most of 
> the time (again if you can do it manually anyway AND you understand 
> what process is being automated, is the YDL installation program.  You 
> won't have to worry about pdisk or any other thing, just select what 
> you want installed.
>
> On Aug 8, 2005, at 3:18 PM, David Froseth wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I tried to install YDL 4.0.1 and I ran into some problems.  First, 
>> the automatic partitioning I used in Disk Druid changed my partitions 
>> around in a way that concerned me.  I started out with a scene that 
>> looked like this in the OS X Disk Utility - Partition section:
>>
>> __________________
>> Free Space
>>
>>
>>
>> __________________
>> OS X  HD
>>
>>
>>
>> __________________
>> OS 9.2.2 HD
>> __________________
>>
>>
>> After partitioning in the YDL settup, it looked like this
>>
>> __________________
>> Untitled
>>
>> __________________
>> OS X HD
>>
>>
>> __________________
>> Untitled
>> __________________
>> Free Space
>>
>>
>> __________________
>> OS 9.2.2 HD
>> __________________
>> Untitled
>> __________________
>>
>>
>>
>> The order of all the partitions was changed around.  YDL partitions 
>> are mixed with Mac OS partitions and there is still a large section 
>> of free space.  Is that normal?  I want YDL partitons to be at the 
>> top and no free space.  Can I do that?  Is that what I should have?
>>
>> Also, yaboot did not recognize the monitor of my PowerBook G4 Ti 550 
>> Mhz laptop, so all I get is the command line.  How could I solve this 
>> problem?
>>
>> Thanks for any help from anyone.
>>
>> Dave
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