Subject: Re: yellowdog 2.1 installer problems
From: Dan Calhoun (dcalhoun15@home.com)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 21:05:05 MST
the only solution I had with my 8500 was to put on a dedicated hard drive,
it loaded first time, and after a week and a half of dinking with it, it
works(yd2.1)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliot Badham Peele" <ebpeele2@unity.ncsu.edu>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: yellowdog 2.1 installer problems
> 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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