Subject: Re: Installing 7300/200 stalls on formatting
From: Dan Calhoun (dcalhoun15@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 07:41:31 MST
I was not able to install ydl2.1 on my main harddrive in my 8500/200 however
as soon as I put in another hardive just for YDL it went right on.I did bump
up the ram as it is cheap these days.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Olivier.Varene@sita.int>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: Installing 7300/200 stalls on formatting
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I do have the same problem on an Old World 7500 AV PowerMac.
>
> Contrary to all of you on this subject, I do have more that 32 Mo of RAM
> (96 to be precise), and the install hangs
> on the partitioning step ...
> I have even partitioned the disk with pdisk under MacOS and tried to jump
> directly to the install step ... nothing !!!
>
> I do not know what is wrong with that damned YDL 2.1, but it seems to be
> the worst realease so far for Old World machine ....
>
> Regards
> Olivier
>
>
>
>
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> >From "Blake Girardot" <girardot@mac.com> on 12 December 2001 17:12:00
> To : <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Subject : Re: Installing 7300/200 stalls on formatting
>
>
>
>
> i have this exact same problem, on an 8500/120 with 32 megs of ram.
>
> after making sure i load the text based installer all goes well, i can
make
> the partitions, but when i click save after i am done the progress bar
> appears, it might move one or two clicks, and then it just hangs, no disk
> activity, no screen activity and it never finishes as i have left it over
> night. i have done this about 6 or 7 times. the disk is fine, it takes mac
> os just fine, several times as well.
>
> i didnt know about the other consol to see error output so i dont know
what
> mine says, but from what was posted here by Jon i think, it looks to me
> like
> the kernel doesn't have enough memory to load the module required to
format
> a disk or read it or something.
>
> i think its just going to come down to you need at least 64 megs of ram to
> use even the YDL 2.1 text based installer. i'll be buying some more ram
and
> let you know if that fixes the problem.
>
>
> blake
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