upgrade to 6.0 on a PS3

[Derick Centeno]

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Hi Peter:

Like all things there are ways of getting around the issue of confusing
x.  Obviously there are those of us who still use the Classic OS 9, as
for myself I'm still using Excel and Word 95 for the Mac (I see no
reason to fork $$$ to Microsoft for their current offering especially
as the mac version is not as functionally versatile as the PC
version).  Why people will pay Microsoft for the MS Office suite which
actually does less, than it's PC counterpart, is an amazing feat of
salesperson doublespeak to me.  As for myself, if I need something more
complex I switch to open source stuff anyway which I run within YDL.

Returning to my point, you should still be able to acquire Panther or
Tiger which runs OS 9 within OS X, and doesn't require a separate OS 9
partition to do so.  This will instantly address your concern as
Anaconda only installs to Linux anyway and in the case of implementing
the x option, would only see one bootable OS X partition.

All the best...

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:58:28 -0700
PeterH5322 <peterh5322 at rattlebrain.com> wrote:

> 
> >Anaconda will see the partitions created during the last install of
> >YDL 5 and write over it as it proceeds to install YDL6, if you allow
> >it to do so.  Mucking about in manipulating the partitions
> >themselves and removing prior data is possible of course, but
> >uneccessary as the available space will be utilized for YDL 6.
> 
> Indeed it does.
> 
> I installed 6.0 on top of (in place of) 5.0.2, but I was very careful 
> about selecting the interactive option to make sure it was going to
> touch the 5.0.2 partition and not one of several MacOS X partitions.
> 
> One thing I learned a while back: your boot drive should have only
> two bootable partitions, otherwise the "X" option doesn't know what
> to do.
> 
> Should you have two or more X partitions, then you can first make an 
> emergency floppy image of X, and then boot into it using the "C"
> option, and thereafter use the "System Preferences" panel (assuming
> you remembered to include "System Preferences" in the emergency
> floppy image, which is NOT the default) to select which X partition
> you want.
> 
> But, you may have to do a Cmd-Opt-O-F followed by the usual reset 
> sequence in order to get back the YDL interractive boot menu.
> 
> Bottom line: dual boot works well when there are only two partitions
> on the boot drive, 9 or X and YDL.
> 
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