Subject: Re: Installing on a Removable Drive
lewis@napanet.net
Date: Thu Sep 09 1999 - 09:47:22 MDT
Well not YDL and not Orb - But I have successfully used RedHat
Installer to put DR3 on a ZiP disk and use it regularly as a
recovery disk. It is pretty straightforward. ZiP is unreliable
so I only use it for emergencies. First you must partition it
right: I use this -
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/sda'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map 10 @ 1
2: Iomega_DiskInfo 10 @ 11
3: Apple_Driver43* 400 @ 21
4: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 / 176853 @ 421 ( 86.4M)
5: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 16384 @ 177274 ( 8.0M)
6: Apple_HFS mac 2950 @ 193658 ( 1.4M)
Then use RedHat Installer just like it was a hard drive.
CAUTION - this is a VERY small partition and RedHat doesn't deal
with running out of space very gracefully (something just chokes)
So only install what you are going to need.
Also 8 meg is VERY small swap space so don't use it for long - I
usually just use 'fsck' on my hard disk system. All you have to do
if your main disk is fsck'd up as they say - is type /dev/sda4 (ZiP)
into BootX control panel and push 'Linux'. Hope that helps.
Stephen Lewis
Leland Blake wrote:
>
> Does anyone have experience installing YDL on a removable such as an Orb?
> Is it possib.e?
>
> --
> Leland Blake
> lblake@usit.net
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