YDL on formatted drive?

[Ebrahim Mayat]

On Sep 20, 2006, at 12:27 AM, 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

I think that your "problem" can be resolved. You could use iPartition  
from Coriolis Systems to delete/initialize (overwrite with zeros)  
your planned ydl partition. Then, install ydl from the LiveCD which  
should detect the free space.

E