My comments are interspersed with your reply below:
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:30:59 -0400, Sterling Garwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok ... > I am using a Mirrored Drive Door Powermac (dual g4). > all drives are internal. Ok. Thanks -- this helps highlight what is going on. > The problem is that the default YDL partitioning (I used the default > scheme in the installer) created partition types not recognized by > Leopard (I think they are EXT3 ... need to check). The problem may be a bit deeper if the term "mirrored drive" refers to the hard drives and not merely the color of the Powermac's outer case. If the internal drives are in fact mirrored that means that neither drive (I assume we are speaking of at least 2 drives) can be used for YDL. This is because the whole concept of a mirrored drive system requires that two drives (at least) be exact copies of one another from the bit level up so that the os can track and note when errors of writing to the HD is made and refer to the mirrored drive in the case of such an event. > When Mac OSX 10.5.3 (Leopard) boots up it sees the non-Apple format > partitions and says basically '...format, eject, or ignore' > I can click the ignore or eject button but I worry that one day my > wife will boot up the system and click the 'format' button. I'm not sure how mirroring is implemented on your system. If the control is software, you should be able to find a Control Panel or something to shut "mirroring" off. If however, the control is strictly hardware meaning that that particular version of the Powermac was intentionally hardwired as a item originally purchased from Apple to implement mirroring you will have to know quite a bit regarding how a computer is put together and whether a drive is a master or slave, etc. to undo or rewire it to function as you wish. I don't use Leopard, you may find it simpler to drop down to Tiger. If you prefer not to do that, then there should be a way to tell Leopard to instruct Leopard to ignore the Linux partitions. Again, I'm familiar with how to do this by formatting the Linux drive with Apple's Disk Utility. NeoAmsterdam is right to strongly suggest that using it is not simple or straightforward. Remember that using Disk Utility properly is the <u>first</u> procedure in preparing <u>any Linux drive or partition before</u> you install YDL6 from it's DVD via Anaconda. You may find it useful to review pp. 2-4 of the installation instructions located here: http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/installation/ Suggestion: Practice using Apple's Disk Utility on a drive you can afford to experiment with. You'll be glad you did; there are a multitude of details to get wrong before you even consider approaching the YDL DVD. Again,after this is done properly Tiger, and even Leopard, should not express an interest to ask you anything regarding any Linux partition. Again, within Tiger, the Disk Utility sees the partitions but they are greyed out and unavailable. Tiger doesn't see Linux or YDL partitions at all. Leopard should behave similarly. Of course, you could avoid this headache by dumping Apple entirely and upgrading to the newly announced YDL Powerstation -- who needs Apple anyway? :) ===== "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ... I get most joy in life out of music." "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
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