Subject: Re: Install fails transferring packages syslog
From: Adam Dershowitz (dersh@alum.mit.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2001 - 16:14:37 MST
How can I do that? It seems that the installer searches for the CD.
If I put all the packages onto an HFS partition can I then point the
installer to them somehow?
--Adam
>What about installing from a HFS Standard partition? You will need
>to point to that partition as the startup drive. (Yaboot, BootX,
>Open Firmware, etc). I installed LinuxPPC Q4 that way and had no
>problems. To do so you will have to get the non ISO install package.
>
>If there is anybody on the list who can help with issues specific to
>Adam's setup ( Old World 7300 and/or SCSI drive support) let's hear
>from you. I'm out of ideas.
>
>Although YDL 2.1 installs farily easily (for some of us) if it were
>not for the Geforce2 support in YDL I wouldn't be using it. LinuxPPC
>was much easier to configure (needed more configuration, though)
>than YDL. I don't know if I'm ever going to get a decent video
>setting (YDL), for example, whereas running text or X with PPC Q4 at
>1280x1024 -24 worked flawlessly when I had a box with an ATI card.
>
>"... Although when I then rebooted and tried to install, the
>partition that was there was not HFS but was instead ext2?) ..."
>The YDL partitioner is kind of weird. I have heard it described as
>"crippled". I can tell you that their idea of HFS is not MacOS's, my
>bootloader disk is invisible in classic and X, but a HFS standard
>volume I set up in OS9 appears on both desktops. With PPC Q4 my
>bootloader was not only visible, I used it as a shared volume.
>
>On Sunday, December 16, 2001, at 03:53 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:
>
>>Gordon,
>>
>>Since I am on an Old World Mac, I can't boot from the CD.
>>But I did just boot from a LinuxPPC 2000Q4 CD and used that to
>>format my root partition.
>>I then rebooted and went to linux with BootX and tried to install
>>YDL2.1 again. I used the default install (so it was not trying to
>>use sdb8 as /home) and tried to install. Again I ran into the same
>>problem. I selected the home/office packages with nothing else.
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