Hi Dave:
General rule in IT, never let a computer do anything like partitioning manually unless you know exactly what it is going to do.

Instead of trusting Disk Druid you could trust yourself to partition your system manually and you would get then, exactly what you want and where.

Regarding Free Space: that is the space hopefully which you created using Apple Utility so that when it created partitions for OS9/OS X it also created a partition called Untitled which within Linux is read as Free Space. That free space is divided up further following standard instructions provided elsewhere by TSS for getting a drive ready so that it is partitioned for YDL. The application used to actually do the partitioning is pdisk. The directories which Linux uses are also created with pdisk. The one other application you could trust most of the time (again if you can do it manually anyway AND you understand what process is being automated, is the YDL installation program. You won't have to worry about pdisk or any other thing, just select what you want installed.

On Aug 8, 2005, at 3:18 PM, David Froseth wrote:

Hi everyone,

I tried to install YDL 4.0.1 and I ran into some problems. First, the automatic partitioning I used in Disk Druid changed my partitions around in a way that concerned me. I started out with a scene that looked like this in the OS X Disk Utility - Partition section:

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Free Space



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OS X  HD



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OS 9.2.2 HD
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After partitioning in the YDL settup, it looked like this

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Untitled

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OS X HD


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Untitled
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Free Space


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OS 9.2.2 HD
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Untitled
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The order of all the partitions was changed around. YDL partitions are mixed with Mac OS partitions and there is still a large section of free space. Is that normal? I want YDL partitons to be at the top and no free space. Can I do that? Is that what I should have?

Also, yaboot did not recognize the monitor of my PowerBook G4 Ti 550 Mhz laptop, so all I get is the command line. How could I solve this problem?

Thanks for any help from anyone.

Dave
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