Subject: Re: Can't get either YDL or Linux PPC (BootX) on my 7200
From: cubisss (cubisss@mediaone.net)
Date: Mon Feb 04 2002 - 16:51:21 MST
Thank you ZR and JR, both of your advice finally got YDL running. I had some
errors with several of my installs, just random files seemed to not be able
to install, but never the same ones twice. On the dozenth attempt, I think I
installed way too much stuff and not everything I wanted, like Apache, but I
have Linux.
Still can't figure out my TCP/IP settings, they didn't seem to inherit from
what I entered at install time, and there's a lot of literature that all
seems to disagree slightly, so I'm tiptoeing...
Thanks
on 2/1/02 12:45 PM, Zeke Runyon at zrunyon@mac.com wrote:
>
> 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. Iıve attached images of both the toast
>> window after handling the file under Disk Image setting and the final
>> burned CD window.
>>
>> This CD wonıt 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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