At 4:07 PM -0500 3/8/04, Michael Johnson wrote:
>On Mar 8, 2004, at 12:55 PM, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
>>At 9:26 AM -0500 3/8/04, Michael Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>I'm ready to start over with the install on the machine, but I 
>>>don't know how to get it to format at HFS+ since the only options 
>>>given in the setup on the install CD are swap, BSD, and msdos.
>>>
>>>Where do I go from here?
>>
>>Partition/format with MacOS tools.  Create an A/UX root and swap 
>>partition, and an HFS partition for the ofwboot.xcf.  Skip the 
>>formatting step in sysinst.
>
>How do I skip the formatting step?  There's no obvious escape from 
>it.  Should I create 3 partitions from the Panther installation disk 
>and then use those to install on?  Will it work with only one 
>partition, i.e. the whole disk?

I haven't looked at the install notes lately, but I'd think it's in there.

I think you tell it to upgrade an existing installation and it'll 
skip the disk formatting, but still install everthing.
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