YDL on formatted drive?

[Jason DeVita]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, t4ch1b4n4 at ybb.ne.jp wrote:
> Derick
>
>> Is it possible, given that you have "many" drives, to use just one
>> solely for YDL?
>
> My problem is that I have a powerbook with 3 partitions. 1 has OS X
> 10.4.7, one has 10.3.x and then there's the unfortunately hfs formatted
> ydl partition.
>
> I have no way of starting from scratch. That is the essence of my
> problem. I thought there might be a way, at this stage, to convert the
> ydl partition from hfs to free space, maybe using disk druid but i don't
> want to lose my OS X partitions.
>
> Thanks for your ideas but I don't think they're solving my problem.
> Maybe it's unsolvable.
>
> Ian

Hi Ian,

I'm actually quite surprised that the YDL installer can't install over an
hfs partition, since all that is required is to (re)format an existing
partition.  At the very least, you should be able to do this from a live
CD, such as Ubuntu's PPC live CD.  I don't see why that wouldn't work.

In fact, I bet you could just boot from the Ubuntu live CD (one and the
same as the Ubuntu installer), start the installation process and go only
as far as reformatting the existing hfs partition, and then exit the
installer.  Or just keep the installer running, and install Ubuntu instead
of YDL.  Not that I would recommend that, of course ;)

-Jason