trouble installing Yellow Dog Linux

[Christopher Nunu]

I'm having trouble creating the partitions for Yellow Dog. I own a G5 
iMac (PowerPC) with 1GB of RAM, and am trying to install Yellow Dog on 
a LaCie 40GB Mobile Hard Drive brand new, no previous OS installed on 
it. The drive is formatted as Mac OS Extended (not journaled). When I 
boot from the Yellow Dog install disk, and enter install firewire at 
the "boot" prompt, i get all the way to the manual partitioning with 
Disk  Druid. It lets me partition the Apple Bootstrap (although I 
notice that it partitions at 8mb, even though I told it to partition as 
1mb. When I try to create the swap partition at 512mb, it gives me a 
"cannot allocate partition error". The same thing happens when I try to 
make the root partition.

Anyone know how to correct this, preferably FREELY? I know I could use 
iPartition to make the partitions for me, but spending $50 on something 
I'll probably use once is not exactly appealing. Do I need to format 
the drive in some other format (such as FAT32), or is there another 
way?