Subject: RE: YDL Install Fails: CD Will Not Mount
From: Mark Douglass (mdouglass@trinitydatasolutions.com)
Date: Tue Nov 27 2001 - 12:14:35 MST
I have a similar problem with my iMac. I am using yaboot - when it gets to
the point on the install to specify the source files - it gives me an error
that it can not read the CD/DVD. It's weird because it definitely boots off
the CD. The hard drives are partitioned with nothing on them yet.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan-Willem Swane [mailto:jan-willem@swane.nl]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 1:54 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: YDL Install Fails: CD Will Not Mount
>I bought YDL 2.0 at MacWorld 2001 NYC, and have only now worked my way
>around to installing it (or trying to) on my old G3. Problem is, the
install
>CD doesn't read. Nada, zip, zilch. It completely fails to mount on any of
my
>several Macs.
I had the same problem and managed to solve it in this way:
- boot linux (in my case with bootX, I don't know how to do it with
yaboot) with the kernel argument 'root-/dev/scd0' (without the
quotes). It tells linux to use my first scsi-cd as root.
- leaving the cd-tray open with the cd in it; at the right moment the
installer would close the tray and start reading the cd.
groeten, Jan-Willem
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