Subject: YDL on Powerbase ( PowerPC 603ev) external drive ??
From: Paul (pfehrman@harpo.lms.kent.edu)
Date: Sat Jun 23 2001 - 16:27:18 MDT
Hi all -
I just purchase YDL 2 and am very much looking forward to using it on my
Powerbase 180.
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Machine: Power Macintosh
Finder: v8.1
System: v8.1 US
Processor: PowerPC 603ev at 180 MHz
Memory Installed: 96 MB
Virtual Memory: is on
Total Memory: 98 MB
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I also am hooked up to a external hard drive, and this is where I am hoping
to have YDL (as I did LinuxPPC). I am including info about this drive
below.
I have used the YDL installation program to create boot ~ 15M, swap ~ 128M,
and root partitions ~ 3+ Gig on the external drive. The external drive
*does also have about 600+M of an Apple partition on it.
But, the challenge that I have run into is this.
I get to the point during installation where I can click on Mount. The
installation program starts adn/or tries to do this mounting. But I get
the message
like:
"There was a problem opening /dev/hda:
Error: the partition's data region doesn't occupy the entire partition."
The install program at this point does not seem to be seeing the ext drive
?? It should be something like /dev/sda I think.
Does anyone have suggestions or comments or alternative approaches...?
Thanks !!
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The "Silverlining" info (interpretation) about the external drive after the
YDL partitioning is the following:
**** Device Information ****
Manufacturer: QUANTUM
Model: XP34550W
Version: LYK8
Supports the SCSI 2 standard
Total capacity = 4,445,380 KB
Total sectors = 8,890,760
Bytes per sector = 512
Cylinders (tracks) = 5,922
Heads (platters) = 10
Sectors = 152
Interleave = 1
Name of installed driver: .ASYC00
Reference number of Driver: -37
Partition 1
Name: Apple
Type: Apple_partition_map
Start block = 1
Block count = 63
Partition 2
Name: Macintosh
Type: Apple_Driver43 *
Start block = 64
Block count = 54
Partition 3
Name: Macintosh
Type: Apple_Driver43
Start block = 118
Block count = 74
Partition 4
Name: Patch Partition
Type: Apple_Patches
Start block = 192
Block count = 512
Partition 5
Name: untitled
Type: Apple_HFS
Start block = 704
Block count = 1,372,811
Partition 6
Name: untitled
Type: Apple_Bootstrap
Start block = 1,373,515
Block count = 20,481
Partition 7
Name: swap
Type: Apple_UNIX_SVR2
Start block = 1,393,996
Block count = 262,145
Partition 8
Name: untitled
Type: Apple_UNIX_SVR2
Start block = 1,656,141
Block count = 7,234,619
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