Subject: Re: Installation for a Mac G3/Beige with LinuxPPC already loaded
From: Bo Brinkman (brinkman@cs.princeton.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2002 - 09:37:03 MST
The YDL page says that the Beige G3 uses BootX, not yaboot. See
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/installation/guide2.1.shtml. If
the boot loader looks like a GUI, not just a black screen with some
text, then that is BootX, not yaboot. 2.1 has a BootX based installer on
the CD which you should be able to use. This will require you keep MacOS
in order to run the boot loader. But I agree with Gordon, having a copy
of the MacOS that you can install from (esp when things go wrong!) is
very important. Maybe you could even find an old MacOS CD from a friend
or on ebay?
Gordon Neault wrote:
> You should be able to boot from a YDL CD using the "c" key.
> You could d/l OS 7.5.3 and reinstall MacOS to your liking. Once there,
> you can use the updaters (also free from Apple) to bring it to 7.6.
> You could boot from a MacOS disk tools floppy and delete relevant
> preferences (to remove the password protection); you should be able to
> do this booted from the HD as well. The OS8 floppy is available for d/l
> from Apple.
> You could install YDL from a HFS partition.
> In other words, you have lots of options.
>
> On Tuesday, January 29, 2002, at 10:55 PM, Steve Jardine wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I have a Beige G3 that has MacOS 7.x and LinuxPPC2000 (with yaboot
>> loader I
>> think??) I do not have Administrator permissions for the OS (although
>> I bought it
>> with Mac OS installed - long story). The MacOS side I cannot get to
>> connect to
>> the rest of my home network ( No Admin permissions).
>>
>> Can anyone come up with a method in which I can load from CD (or
>> the net) YDL
>> 2.1 over the LinuxPPC install??
>>
>>
>> Steve...
>>
>>
>>
-- William "Bo" Brinkman brinkman@cs.princeton.edu Princeton Computer Science http://www.derandomized.org/ -- Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? I think so Brain, but does the Queen OWN a jetski? --Pinky and the Brain
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