Subject: Re: yellowdog 2.1 installer problems
From: Gavin Hemphill (hemphill@drea.dnd.ca)
Date: Sat Nov 17 2001 - 09:21:21 MST
The installer is known to have this problem if your / (root) partition
is not large enough. The /tmp directory fills up and you run into
problems. Another note is that 32MB is probably not enough memory.
G++
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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