Subject: RE: Nubie question, install without macos ?
From: Art Bain (artbain@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 30 2001 - 14:18:15 MST
Thanks for all the help. I like this group already.
I've used both Nero and EZCD. EZCD has a nasty habit of causing problems
with windows and windows programs. I'll try Nero shortly.
I did read the "Do I have to...", but just thought some creative person
might have an 'unofficial' work around. I will take the YDL help archives as
gospel in the future.
I've had the MAC for about a year. My kids used it and it wasn't on our
network until now. I'll have to leave it on for a while to see if there is
the network problem. Do you think Apple will still honor the recall? ;)
Thanks again to all who helped.
eulater
art
>From: "Pete Peters" <ppeters914@home.com>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
>CC: <artbain@hotmail.com>
>Subject: RE: Nubie question, install without macos ?
>Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:52:20 -0800
>
>Art,
>
>You can use Shorten <http://www.hornig.net/shorten.html> to compute
>md5sums on the Mac. Classic and carbon versions available. Windows and
>MacOS ISO verifiers can also be found at;
>
><http://www.linuxiso.org/md5sum.html>
>
>
>Hmmmmm, never heard of Undisker. IIRC, most of the posts on successful
>burns on Windoze boxes use Nero or EZ CD Creator.
>
>Blake did *NOT* tell us what model desktop Mac he installed YDL w/o
>MacOS on. I bet it's a New World ROM Mac, which your 7200/90 is *NOT*.
>Like Brian said, your Mac *REQUIRES* a minimum MacOS install to
>install/boot Linux. You only need the Finder, the system file, maybe the
>CDROM extension, and SimpleText (and
>otherwise empty folders for extensions, preferences, control panels,
>etc.)
>
>Btw, all the above info was available in the archives. The
>"Do-I-have-to-install-MacOS?" question has been answered numerous times.
>Please search there first before posting a question.
>
>EXTRA TIBIT: Not knowing the history of your 7200/90, or how long you've
>had it, just want you to know that early ones had a problem on the
>motherboard where the networking would quit when it got warm. Turns out
>it was a bad circuit board etching that would "disconnect" after a
>while. Apple had a recall program to fix it. Don't know it that info is
>still in Apple's knowledgebase or not.
>
>Pete
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Art Bain [mailto:artbain@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 9:58 AM
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>Subject: Re: Nubie question, install without macos ?
>
>
>I'll give that a try, right after I figure out how to burn the iso. I'm
>working in a Win2k environment and am having trouble reading the iso. I
>couldn't do a checksum until I changed the file name to ydl.iso and was
>then
>able to read the directory structure. But when I try to do a burn (using
>undisker) nothing happens! I can burn RedHat disks and other Linux
>flavors,
>but not YDL. BTW, the checksum was correct after I changed the name.
>I've
>also tried downloading from a mirror site with the same results. Got any
>suggestions?
>
>eulater
>art
>
>
> >From: "Blake Girardot" <girardot@mac.com>
> >Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> >To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> >Subject: Re: Nubie question, install without macos ?
> >Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 10:42:04 -0500
> >
> >i downloaded the iso disk image and then burned it to a cd in mac os 9
>on
> >an
> >ibook, then booted a desktop box from that CD and installed it just
>fine
> >with never seeing mac os on the install box. and never having to
>install
> >mac
> >os on it.
> >
> >get the iso from here:
> >ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/iso/fuji-2.1-20011105-instal
>l.iso
> >
> >it was pretty automatic after booting from the cd.
> >
> >so yes, one way is to just download the .iso, burn to a cd, boot off
>the cd
> >and intall i think.
> >
> >hope it helps,
> >
> >blake
> >
> >----------------------------------------------------------
> >Blake Girardot
> >girardot (a) mac.com
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Art Bain" <artbain@hotmail.com>
> >To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> >Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:08 AM
> >Subject: Nubie question.
> >
> >
> > > Is there a way to install YDL 2.1 without having Mac OS installed
>first?
> >I
> > > have a PowerMAC 7200/90 and would like to install YDL 2.1 by itself.
> >Looking
> > > through YDL's help files, I only see an explaination of how to
>install
> >using
> > > a boot loader.
> > >
> > > tia,
> > > art
> > >
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