Subject: Re: Linux on Expansion Bay Drive
From: Adam Oliner (adam@rpdesign.com)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 10:08:15 MDT
Am I changing yaboot.conf to reflect that change, or am I only typing
something different into the OF prompt? My yaboot.conf reads like
this:
init-message = "\nWelcome to Yellow Dog Linux!\nHit <TAB> for boot
options.\n\n"
timeout = 150
default = install
image = ultra0:9,vmlinux-2.2.17pre13-ben1
label = install
initrd = ultra0:9,ramdisk.image.gz
initrd-size = 8192
append = "video=aty128fb:vmode:17"
And I type, at the OF prompt:
boot ultra0:9,yaboot
It says the partition is not valid.
I have noticed that filenames seem to have been appended so that
yaboot.conf was yaboot.con and yaboot.tbx, not yaboot.tbxi. Will this
make a difference? Must I download the disk image again? Is there a
procedure I can follow in the MacOS to get these files onto their
respective partitions intact?
>Alternative to specifying "hd" you can use "ultra0" for first IDE/ATA and
>"ultra1" for the second IDE/ATA in the chain.
>
>Best Regards,
>Charles Stevenson
>
>On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote:
>> I have an old enough Powerbook that I can use BootX instead of yaboot to
>> drop into linux. However, it is indeed likely that hd:9 will not work for
>> you since it is a different drive. For me, the device that I got for my
>> expansion bay was hde, so for partition 9 that would be hde:9. however, my
>> main drive was hda. Like I said, I've never used yaboot. Someone who has
>> might like to say something. However, that will be the same for whether
>> you use the CD or not, you are just starting up the ramdisk that is on the
>> bootstrap partition for the install anyways...
>>
>> -Christopher Andrews
>>
>> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Adam Oliner wrote:
>>
>> > I have tried following the intructions at
>> > http://www.modctek.com/linux_report.htm but at the Open Firmware
>> > prompt it can't find the Bootstrap partition of my bay drive. It
>> > isn't hd:9, even though that's the first partition of the bay drive.
>> > Do I start numbering differently because it's not my internal drive?
>> >
>> > >On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Adam Oliner wrote:
>> > >
>> > >I have linux running off my expansion bay HD just fine with my Powerbook.
>> > >It isn't a firewire so I could use both the CD-ROM and the HD at the same
>> > >time. However, my disks got stolen and I had to do another install, so
>> > >I've done it both ways. I believe you can do it from the disk image, but
>> > >I'm not sure, someone else should chime in and correct me. However, I did
>> > >a straight hard drive install. You want to go ahead and partition the
>> > >expansion bay HD with an HFS partition. This needs to be big enough to
>> > >hold the install files. You can then just dump the YellowDog folder (it
>> > >has 'RPMS' and 'base' inside of it) onto the HFS partition and then pick
>> > >hard drive install in the installer. It will ask you where the install
>> > >tree is and you pick the partition that has it (which you will
>>probably be
>> > >able to do by just looking at the sizes of the partitions if you don't
>> > >know the partitions name...). After that it works just like
>>installing off
>> > >the CD...
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> 2) I have a Firewire Powerbook, on which I would like to install YDL
>> > >> CS1.2. I burnt two CD's (the installer and the treats from the disk
>> > >> images). Instead of moving everything off my internal HD,
>> > >> reformatting, etc., I thought it would be easier and cleaner to
>> > >> partition a HD in the expansion bay and install YDL on that. Problem
>> > >> being I can't have both the HD and the CD-ROM in the bay
>> > >> simultaneously. Any ideas as to how I should go about getting Linux
>> > >> on this machine, one way or another?
>> > >>
>> > >> FYI: The internal is 12 GB, the bay is an 8 GB.
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks in advance.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >- Christopher Andrews
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Adam Oliner
>> > Director of Technology
>> > Reference Point Design
>> > <http://www.rpdesign.com>
>> >
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