Subject: Re: yellowdog 2.1 installer problems
From: Patrick Ladam (ladam@smbh.smbh.univ-paris13.fr)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 11:55:13 MST
elliot peele wrote:
> i am having serious problems with the 2.1 installer. it continues to crash
> when 'Transfering pachages' and its realy starting to piss me off. i don't
> beleive that there is anything wrong with my computer being that it runns
> linuxppc and debian just fine, therefore it must in some how be the
> installer. i would realy like to run yellowdog because i like the way that
> it is set up. linuxppc looks to have stopped development and is going
> under and i just don't like how debian feels or the fact that the
> installer doesn't install important things like ftp or pine. i have tried
> using another distro to format the partitions, downloading the iso one more
> time and burning it again.
>
> if anyone can give me any suggestions at all i would greatly appriciate
> it. the specs on my machine are listed bellow.
>
> power macintosh 6500/250
> 32MB ram
> 40GB maxtor hard drive
> 10T assante nic
> 10/100 assante nic
> 12X SCSI cdrom drive
> 100MB SCSI zip drive
> 1GB SCSi jaz drive external
> 650MB olympus MO drive external
>
> elliot
Does it crash just before installing any package or does it
install a few ones and then crash?
Do you have the text or GUI installer (I had this problem at some
point but only with the text installer, not he GUI).
Bye
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