Subject: Re: yellowdog 2.1 installer problems
From: Elliot Badham Peele (ebpeele2@unity.ncsu.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 17 2001 - 11:03:36 MST
is 3gb ebough for a root partition?
elliot
On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Gavin Hemphill wrote:
> 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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