Subject: Re: Yeller Dog finally installing!
From: Doug Philips (dgou@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 22:06:20 MST
John Nelson <john@computation.com> indited:
>The Yeller Dog installer is,
>IMHO,
>sensitive and fragile and has been crashing a lot during
>installation.
I wish I could dispute that, but I can't say my personal experience is very
much different.
>The moral is that if you want Yeller Dog, make sure that you have
>plenty
>of RAM and disk space. A puny 1 gig of disk space just ain't gonna
>do
>it even for a Base Install.
I was able to do a Base Install on a 7600/132 with 48Meg Ram and 1.2 Gig
disk (of which 250 is MacOS8.6, 128Mb is swap, and the rest is one
monolithic Linux partition), so even with 800Mb of disk I had no trouble
(and room to spare).
>the point of installing packages with no major hiccups is an
>accomplishment.
I know that feeling!
>Also, I'm really pleased that I can upgrade and reuse this old
>machine.
>If I can get Yeller Dog installed, I'm adding this to my Beowulf
>cluster and maybe upgrade the processor to a G3. The 8500 always
>was a
>good machine and worth keeping.
Well, if you upgrade the processor, it really isn't a 8500 anymore... ;-)
;-)
-Doug
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