Subject: Re: any good macos x mailing lists?/ YDL installation problems.
From: Reid Anderson (resander@cs.hamilton.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 17:50:33 MDT
How about the apple developer list
Check out Apple.com and find the developer section, then find the lists
I think there is an Apple OS X list too
On Tuesday, October 3, 2000, at 07:29 PM, Robert May wrote:
> 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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