Subject: Re: yellowdog 2.1 installer problems
From: Elliot Badham Peele (ebpeele2@unity.ncsu.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 14:28:31 MST
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Patrick Ladam wrote:
> 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
it crashes about 3/4 of the way through 'Transfering packages' i use the
text installer because my compuer will not run the gui installer.
elliot
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