YDL on formatted drive?

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Ian:

Your statement suggests that you have more than one partition on your 
drive, together with the partition formerly reserved for YDL (which you 
apparently wiped out accidently).  If my interpretation is correct, it 
may be best to reformat the entire drive using Apple's Disk Utility.  
Format one partition (as hfs) for the Mac OS (whichever you were using)  
and the other (as Free Space) for YDL -- at the same time.  Although the 
discussion within the installation manuals on this information is very 
brief, it is assumed that one is familiar with how this utility works 
and how to get it to partition a drive into different formats.  
Journaling, although useful, can be turned on and off like a switch from 
within OS X. 

These particular instructions are the same or nearly so across different 
versions of YDL.  You can review those guides to installation here:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/installation/

If you are not familiar with Apple's disk formatting utility then before 
you begin this process of partitioning your drive for YDL (or  anything 
else) get more familiar with how this utility works and what it can do.  
Remember that when you are finally ready to use it you should:

1.  Backup whatever Mac files you need.

2.  Remember to use that utility from within the Apple Install CD which 
came with that Mac; this also means that you are booting from that Apple 
CD to create the Mac and the YDL partitions -- at the same time.

After the YDL partition has been prepared using Apple's program; then 
you need to complete the YDL installation instructions which will allow 
you to create an ext3 filesystem and then install the YDL programs on that.

Good Luck...
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t4ch1b4n4 at ybb.ne.jp wrote:
> When I partitioned my Mac I set aside a partition for ydl but
> accidentally formatted it. Is there any way I can now install ydl on it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ian Masters
>