Subject: Re: misery with install on Wallstreet Powerbook G3/466/DVD
From: Paul Kimber (tech@tough.net.au)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 06:10:32 MDT
Hi Michael,
In toast you need to burn as a disk image - NOT MacOS volume. Do not
mount or make any changes to the iso image.
cheers,
Paul
Michael Carlson said at Òmisery with install on Wallstreet Powerbook
G3/466/DVDÓ.
[23/Jul/01Mon 06:36]
> Hello all,
>
> I'm hoping one or more folks will have a few insights to offer me.
> I have been trying unsuccessfully to install YDL 2.0 on my
> Wallstreet Powerbook G3/466/DVD since I first downloaded the ISO
> and burned a copy three weeks ago. Just to make sure, I downloaded
> the ISO a second time about a week ago. I have tried three
> different burns of the ISO (all using the Mac Volume version), all
> made with Adaptec's (aka Roxio's) Toast Deluxe 4.1.2 and a Yamaha
> SCSI burner from APS, and all install attempts (except the most
> recent one) made with the Apple CD/DVD device, a Matshita
> (Panasonic) SR-8182 that came with the Powerbook. The most recent
> install attempt, in order to verify it wasn't just some quirk with
> the media bay DVD device, was done on an external SCSI unit, the
> Matshita (Panasonic) KXL-D742.
>
> The three burns, in order, have been: CD-R with optimized data
> layout, CD-RW with no alteration to data layout, and most recently,
> CD-R with no alternation to data layout. Along with this, I have
> tried both the text-based and GUI version of the BootX installer
> package from the ISO, and also tried the text-only package off the
> YDL website that supposedly installs without verifying information
> about the CD-ROM device.
>
> So, every single one of these install attempts have been made
> booting out of MacOS 9.1, and just to be absolutely sure this was a
> not a MacOS 9.x issue with BootX, i installed the text-only BootX
> package on an 8.6 system, then booted with all possible extensions
> disabled (All Off in the Extensions Manager). In all cases I have
> gotten to the point in the install where one selects the media for
> the install, selected the CD/DVD option (the only one presented),
> and then been prompted over and over again to please insert the YDL
> 2.0 CD. in all cases, the CD has been in the drive, spun up and
> ready to go.
>
> I have spent countless hours wracking my brains over this, and have
> come no further. This was never an issue with YDL 1.2 or 1.2.1,
> both of which installed quite happily, and have been my primary
> experience with Linux for the past year or so. The only thing
> that's changed since I installed YDL 1.2.1 is that I upgraded my
> machine from the original 300Mhz G3 to a 466Mhz G3 with the
> PowerLogix Blue Chip upgrade.
>
> I dislike the clunkiness of LinuxPPC, and don't care to dive into
> the foreign world of non-Red Hat distros right now. Has anyone else
> had similar issues with the ISO? Any clues as to what might be
> going on here? Sorry to be to verbose, but I want to make sure I
> provide as many details as could be pertinent.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike Carlson
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