RE: need some help with burning cs1.21 image


Subject: RE: need some help with burning cs1.21 image
From: Andrew Le (ale1@msi-world.com)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 10:14:26 MDT


Ok, I'll give that a try... Thanks...

Andrew

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff [mailto:jhergan@home.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 9:10 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: RE: need some help with burning cs1.21 image
>
>
> >Yeah, I have the exact same problem...
> >
> >Anyone know what's wrong? I have a stock PM 8500/132 PPC604.
> >
> >Andrew
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Adam [mailto:adamhadm@frontiernet.net]
> >> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 5:07 PM
> >> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> >> Subject: need some help with burning cs1.21 image
> >>
> >>
> >> I have downloaded the latest ISO image and burned it to
> cd using the
> >> latest Toast on a G4. I mounted the image on the desktop
> (two images
> >> mounted, one with lowercase and the other every thing in
> upper case)
> >> and selected the ISO format with macintosh names in the options.
> >> Then I choose the the lowercase image and burned... It
> mounts on the
> >> desktop fine but when I run the Red Hat installer it does not
> >> recognized that the cd is a Yellow Dog tree...
> >>
> >> What went wrong??
> >>
> >> Adam
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Adam Done Studios,
> >> Commercial Photography
> >> and Digital Imaging
> >>
>
> I think I know what the problem is.
> You aren't supposed to mount or otherwise alter the image file that
> you downloaded. So:
> 1. Make sure you downloaded in binary format (not ascii).
> 2. Open Toast and choose "Disk Image" as the type instead of ISO.
> 3. Drag the raw disk image (not one of those mounted ones you made)
> to the Toast window. Or you can click the data button and choose the
> disk image.
> 4. Write the image.
>
> At least that's the way I did it with the last image. Again, let me
> emphasize that if you altered the raw image that you downloaded in
> any way you'll need to download it again. FWIW, I downloaded the
> MkLinux R1 disk image this morning in 10 minutes on my cable modem
> from one of the mirror sites. Hope you're not stuck in 25k land. : |
> HTH
> Jeff
>



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