Re: any good macos x mailing lists?/ YDL installation problems.


Subject: Re: any good macos x mailing lists?/ YDL installation problems.
From: Robert Vogt IV (vogt@arborhost.com)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 17:44:47 MDT


    Try lists.themacintoshguy.com.

                            Sincerely,

                            Robert Vogt IV
                            CEO
                            ArborHost

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>From: Robert May <mayro@earthlink.net>
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>Subject: any good macos x mailing lists?/ YDL installation problems.
>Date: Tue, Oct 3, 2000, 7:29 PM
>

> now that I've ventured over to the MacOS X world I was wondering if there
> were any mailing lists out there that I might find as useful as this one.
> I have a few basic questions but they seem too of topic to ask on this list.
>
> while I'm asking questions...I'm having trouble installing YDL on my G4.
> My partition map seems o have gone haywire or something. When I boot the
> installer everything goes smoothly until I have to edit my partitions. I
> setup the partitions the way I want them, reboot, and when I try to go any
> further with the installation I can't. At first I was getting a message
> that said that the device was buisy, now I get a message that says that it
> can't read the partition map. OK I'll agree with the installer there's
> something wrong with the partition map. When I look at it with fdisk in
> the installer it looks they way I want it to be: five partitions, one for
> /usr/src another for /usr/local, the third /home then /root and finally a
> swap. BUT under MacOS X these show up as one HFS partition (which is the
> way I originally had it before trying to install YDL) and pdisk says the
> drive is a 628MB partition only which is very very wrong.
>
> I'm all out of ideas of what to do other than format the disk and start
> over but I would like to avoid this and not have to re-install and
> configure three OS's.
>
> thank you,
> robert m.



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