Subject: Newbie installation questions...
From: Eric Fronberg (enf@cisco.com)
Date: Mon May 29 2000 - 12:10:24 MDT
Howdy all,
I've just purchased YDL 1.2 and have run into some confusions about
installation.
My system is an iMac 333Mhz. I've just recently upgraded the
HD to a 27Gb drive and have 288Mb of RAM installed.
The HD is partitioned into two pieces. The first is HFS+ at ~17.5 Gb
The second partition is HFS at ~8 Gb.
I seem to be unable to boot from the second partition -- Having even done
a 'fresh' MacOS 9 install to this second partition, leaves me with a
blank screen (no smiling Mac Icon).
Some questions...
- I've searched the archives to any mention of HFS+ support. The question
has come up multiple times without any answer. Does anyone know of
any development being done for support of HFS+?
- As mentioned above I currently have Two partitions set up on the
iMac disk. Is the above paritioning appropriate for YDL
installation/operation? I'm concerned about yaboot or xboot
requirements/assumptions. I not sure from the Docs, but it seems
that in place of the second partition, there may need to be a small
HFS partition with a "third unformatted" partition occupying the
rest of the disk space. This Third partition would hold YDL proper
I could also imagine that YDL runs on top of HFS with no need for this
third partition.
- Any insights on the 2nd partition booting? I'm guessing that this
might be a firmware issue. (Not able to deal with such a large drive??)
- Will the 2nd partition booting issue affect YDL booting? (yaboot or xboot?)
I've spent Many, Many hours reinstalling the OS onto the first
parition and don't look forward to having to do that again
(Reformatting to HFS, and reinstalling the data) in order to have YDL
see the the MacOS partition.
What I'm considering now (as an approach) is booting MacOS 9 from the
CDROM, and copying all the info from the first partition to the
second, then initializing the first partition to HFS and then copying
all the data back.
- Is there any problem with the above approach?
thanks in advance!
-- enf
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