Subject: RE: New install on an 7600/120
From: Andrew Le (ale1@msi-world.com)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 18:03:47 MDT
Ah.. so is that the key.... THe file names need to be in lowercase for the
installer to recognize a good CD?
I didnt know that.. and mounting causes it to become uppercase.. okay,
thanks, I'll look into it..
Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Wynne [mailto:rdw@plaza.ds.adp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 4:52 PM
> To: 'yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com'
> Subject: RE: New install on an 7600/120
>
>
> Andrew,
>
> If the CD is burned from a mounted image of the cs1.2.1 image
> file, all the
> filenames are changed to uppercase and the installer doesn't
> recognize the
> disk. It needs to be burned without mounting the image. See
> the recent
> thread "Re: need some help with burning cs1.21 image" for more info.
>
> For the record, it appears there is no way to burn the Yellow
> Dog ISO image
> properly using the "Describe" CD authoring software made by
> Charismac that
> comes with Sony CD burners. This was confirmed by Charismac
> tech support.
> Describe doesn't support burning an image without mounting it.
>
> - Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Le [mailto:ale1@msi-world.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 8:47 AM
> To: 'yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com'
> Cc: 'ivan@arcosanti.homeip.net'
> Subject: RE: New install on an 7600/120
>
>
> When I try to install on a PM 8500, it says, "not a Yellow
> Dog CD-ROM," when
> in fact it's a CD-ROM that I just burned with the image...
>
> Andrew
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ivan Fritz [mailto:ivan@arcosanti.homeip.net]
> > Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 1:16 PM
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Subject: New install on an 7600/120
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am trying to install yellowdog 1.2 on an older mac
> > 7600. I have
> > an internal SCSI drive set at 0 and terminated (MESH SCSI
> controller,
> > btw). I've partitioned the drive with a 200mb macOS partiton
> > to have the
> > system on it. I'm using the bootx app control panel that I
> downloaded
> > from yellowdog's site.
> > When I start the install, I use fdisk to partition the drive,
> > (with swap,/,/usr/and /home) and I get the error that I need to
> > reboot for the new partitioning to take effect. When I do,
> > however, the
> > installer no longer recognises the drive! I have tried
> over and over,
> > with different partitioning schemes, and each time it is
> > exactly the same.
> > What is going on? The drive is a quantum fireball.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreceated, as I am pulling my
> hair out in
> > large patches each time I reboot ;)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -Ivan
> >
>
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