Subject: Re: yellowdog 2.1 installer problems
From: Dan Calhoun (dcalhoun15@home.com)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 21:37:48 MST
I don't think an Old World ROM Style mac will let you do that as the New
World ROM's are loaded into ram on boot. Our ROM are on a chip on the MB. So
hence the dual boot scenario. The mac has to boot to MAC OS then it switches
to Linux OS....The B/W macs G3's will boot solely on A LinuxPPC distro...or
so I'm told
On Friday 16 November 2001 08:12, you wrote:
> this is a dedicates hard drive becasue i don't want to run mac os just
> linux. i have mac os booting off of a jaz drive right now so that i can
> get a linux distro installed on my machine. then i entend to install quik
> or miboot and use the jaz drive to install on some other machines.
>
> elliot
>
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Dan Calhoun wrote:
> > 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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