Subject: Re: yellowdog 2.1 installer problems
From: Elliot Badham Peele (ebpeele2@unity.ncsu.edu)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 09:34:32 MST
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Patrick Ladam wrote:
> Elliot Badham Peele wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Hi,
> Just a dumb question (hope that won't irritate you...): do you have enough room on
>
> your root partition?
> Bye
>
this question has already been brought up. i have a 3gb root partition
which i and every one else seems to think is enough.
elliot
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