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On 15 Mar 2006, at 20:40, Derick Centeno wrote:

> Hi Chris:
> Generally, before you install YDL (Yellow Dog Linux) you need to 
> format the drive onto which YDL will exist.
>
> If only YDL will exist on that drive then before you run the installer 
> you need to boot from the Apple System Disk which came with your 
> computer.  In other words before we get to do anything involving Linux 
> or YDL we need to format the drive using Apple's Disk Utility which 
> resides within the System Disk (if you have the DVD form of that 
> System Disk which comprises the Hardware Test and everything else for 
> OS X otherwise you'll have a string of CDs; either way the program to 
> use will be Apple's Disk Utility regardless and it  should see the 
> entire drive you intend to dedicate to YDL.  As nothing else but YDL 
> will be on that drive all you need to do is select it to create 1 
> partition and select the kind of partition called Free Space.  It is 
> important to note here that although Disk Utility calls it Free Space, 
> in actually that is the format structure upon which YDL will use to 
> create ext3 partition from that free space.
>
> After Disk Utility creates what it considers to be Free Space if the 
> Drive was mounted, it will disappear from the desktop.  OS X will ask 
> you to mount the drive, choose instead to ignore that request; in 
> other words ignore the drive.  After Disk Utility has finished 
> creating the Free Partition, and you've closed that application.  Then 
> boot from the YDL installation disk and tell YDL to format that newly 
> formatted drive.  Be sure that you can recognize which drive you are 
> formatting and read the partition maps of which drive you are telling 
> the YDL installer (anaconda) to turn into a Linux or YDL only disk.
>
> It might be a good idea to review the installation manual before 
> proceeding further.
> If you need to review a manual regarding the instructions just 
> download it (for free) from here:
>
> http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/installation/
>
> I expect that the rest should be smooth sailing from that point.
> Good Luck...
>
> On Mar 15, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Christopher Nunu wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
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