Subject: RE: Hard Drive install question
From: Vanco, Donald (VANCOD@PIOS.com)
Date: Wed Jul 12 2000 - 07:01:34 MDT
Yinz need to have both - YellowDog and RedHat (the install image you have is
know to be broken in this respect) - one needs to be a sym link.
So, if the directory is YellowDog, from ITS ROOT type:
ln -s YellowDog RedHat
...and you'll be fine.
Don
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Black [mailto:cpa@ece.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 7:21 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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