RE: Installing on Old World G3


Subject: RE: Installing on Old World G3
From: fulghum, matt (matt2@bcc.cba.ua.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 23 2001 - 18:22:19 MDT


I'd assume so, else how would she get the drive partitioned in the first
place... ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Kit Plummer [mailto:kp@imsystems.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:39 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: Installing on Old World G3

Jenn,

This may be a stupid question...but, is the HD installed correctly? YDL is
complaining about find a drive, not the partition scheme in
general... Have you had a MacOS installed on the same drive/machine?

At 08:29 AM 8/24/01 +0900, you wrote:
>Hi Guys...
>
>I have checked the archives for an answer to no avail, so here goes: I
>am
>trying to install YDL 2.0 for the first time, on a Beige G3/266 into which
>I have put a 30G hard dive. I have tried about six different partitioning
>schemes, but every time I get to the partitioning part of the
>installation, I get a "Partitioning Error: No Drives Detected" or
>something like that. I have tried the following schemes:
>15G HFS+, 15G unallocated
>8G HFS+, 10G unallocated, 12G HFS+
>8G HFS+, 22G unallocated
>6G HFS+, 24G Linux Home
>6G HFS+, 24G unallocated
>BootX is working fine, the CD installed the base config fine on a New
>World G3 with 60G... but on my home computer, nothing. Does anyone know
>what gives? Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>Jenn
>
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Thanks!

Kit Plummer
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