Subject: RE: Hard Drive install question
From: Black (cpa@ece.cmu.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 20:08:05 MDT
As an extension to my woes... I noticed that the ramdisk that I had gotten
off the CD was a different size then the one on the ftp site. So, I
switched to the one from the website. It was indeed different because when
I got to the screen for picking the harddrive partition to find the
YellowDog folder, the text said YellowDog instead of RedHat.
So, when I tried to pick the partition that had the folder on it, this
time it told me that the device could not be mounted because it didn't
exist. The only partition that it says does exist is the one I am trying
to install into. I thought I could use an HFS partition for this, is this
not the case? I'm very puzzled, any help would be very appreciated...
-christopher
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Black wrote:
> That is what I thought, and that is what I tried first. No dice. At the
> root level of the drive I have a folder called YellowDog which has a base
> and RPMS folder in it. I left the installation tree location as / and I'm
> told the installation tree can't be found. I really don't know what I
> could be doing wrong.
> -christopher
>
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Carl Edwards wrote:
>
> > If the directory is on the root level of the drive, when it asks for the
> > location just put in /
> >
> > Worked for me.
> >
> > It's not looking for the location of the files, it's looking for the
> > location of the directory that has the files.
> >
> > Also it says in the docs what to name the directory, I don't recall offhand.
> >
> > Hope that helps...
> >
> > -Carl
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Black [mailto:cpa@ece.cmu.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 4:21 PM
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Subject: Hard Drive install question
> >
> >
> > So, I could use a little advice. I am trying to install YD onto a G3
> > Powerbook 266. I had the CDs, but they were stolen, so I am trying to
> > reinstall from the harddrive. I am trying to install onto a removable bay
> > harddrive (I had it up and running before, but I need to reinstall). I
> > read the FAQ and saw that I could just download the YellowDog/base and
> > YellowDog/RPMS folders and stick them on the harddrive. So, I made a
> > folder called YellowDog and stuck the two folders inside. I placed this on
> > my HFS partition of the removable harddrive. I get to the stage where I
> > have to pick how I want to install and the partition shows up. I select it
> > and I get told that the YellowDog install tree can't be found on the
> > partition. I've tried changing the name of the folder they are in to
> > Yellow Dog and even RedHat. I tried leaving the two folders on the top
> > level. Nothing seems to work. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
> >
> > -christopher
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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