Subject: Re: Can't install YDL 2.1 on B&W
From: Patrick Ladam (ladam@smbh.smbh.univ-paris13.fr)
Date: Fri Jan 18 2002 - 11:50:52 MST
Ed wrote:
> Hi, I just purchased YDL 2.1 direct from YDL (I thought I'd support
> them). I boot from the install CD and start to install, but after the
> question about the keyboard type, I get a message saying "The
> installer was unable to mount the CD/DVD". If I hit "OK", it asks me
> to "Please insert the Yellow Dog Install CD into the CD/DVD drive".
> This fails again. I can't seem to get past this point in the install.
>
> If I hit option-F3 to see the console, I see an error message,
> "System Error: (22, 'Invalid argument')"
>
> Since I booted from the install CD, I don't see how it is unable to
> mount it.
>
> My system is a 400MHz B&W G3 (rev 1 motherboard). The main hard drive
> is a 2.5 GB with OS 9.2.1 installed (HFS+). I added a Sonnet Tempo
> IDE card and added a 40GB hard drive on controller 1. Its partitioned
> into to 20 GB partitions with OS 10.1 on the first partition (HFS+).
> The second partition is unallocated.
>
> TIA,
> Ed Wang
Hi Ed,
You probably are in the text-mode installer, this problem you mention does
not appear if you are in X-mode. I have the same machine than you and noticed
that sometimes the Graphic installer will show up, sometimes not and would
fall back in text-mode.
Here is a trick that worked everytime for me:
1) Go back in MacOS, reformat your swap, root and boot partitions from scratch
using pdisk or Disk Utility from MacOS
2)Reboot once into MacOS, that is the trick to get the X-mode installer
later on.
3) Reboot the YDL install CD and go for it, you should have
the graphic installer now working.
I have no real explanation for that (something re-initialized
in MacOS during step 2 probably) but this worked perfectly for me.
Bye
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