Subject: Re: Can't get either YDL or Linux PPC (BootX) on my 7200
From: Zeke Runyon (zrunyon@mac.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 13:45:07 MST
On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 02:43 PM, cubisss wrote:
> I downloaded fuji-2.1-20011105-install.iso, the file was 646.1 MB on my
> Mac Extended HD. I was confident this was a good file because Toast
> seemed to treat it like royalty. I’ve attached images of both the toast
> window after handling the file under Disk Image setting and the final
> burned CD window.
>
> This CD won’t boot either of my Macs. Did I screw up?
After you've installed a new clean version of Mac OS on your correctly
partitioned drive, use the YDL CD to install BootX.
After you reboot, the BootX box will show up where you can select the
right Linux RAM disk (click the options button) to boot up the YDL CD,
located in your System Folder: ramdisk-x11.image.gz (this is the X
Windows nice graphical interface). It should select the RAM disk
automatically if your HD is named "Macintosh HD".
After all the RAM disk stuff is set up correctly, boot into linux by
clicking the "Linux" button.
Go to
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/installation/guide2.1.shtml
for the complete instructions, it's what I used to install, at least.
> I was told that Yellow Dog was the way to go, but that I might only be
> able to run MKLinux on my system. But from reading this forum, it seems
> that others have had success with YDL on 7200s.
I have YDL 2.1 running on my 7200/120 (http://gloin.dyn.dhs.org/)
perfectly fine.
I don't know anything about the installation of Linux PPC, so I can't
help you there.
Hope this helps,
z
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