Subject: RE: Installing YDL
From: Pete Peters (ppeters914@home.com)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 15:44:18 MDT
Just a lurker here, but FWIW, HFS+ will cause you nothing but grief. If
anyone knows otherwise, please correct me.
"Jumper the drives" refers to a physical jumper on the hard drive,
whether IDE or SCSI. For IDE, that'll determine Master or Slave. For
SCSI, it'll determine the SCSI ID. You wouldn't use Drive Setup do do
anything other than identify what's what. You should also be able to
determine the SCSI ID using the Apple System Profiler.
On my PPC9500, I have two SCSI drives on the internal bus. The first
drive is SCSI ID 0 (that's zero). It is HFS w/ MacOS 8.6. I installed
from this hard drive to the second SCSI drive (ID 1). [NOTE: Being an
Old World Mac, I needed BootX] I also have my YDL rpms on the first
drive. Linux recognizes these drives as sdaX and sdbX, respectively. The
"X" is the partition number
Btw, I had nothing but trouble w/ LinuxPPC. The good thing is that it
sent me into the YDL camp. Stick around, you'll like it here. <g>
HTH
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Brethen [mailto:mbrethen@rochester.rr.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 1:56 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: Installing YDL
Thanks for replying. The guide was unclear about a couple of things:
1) My Mac OS partion is HFS+ on a separate scsi drive. The guide says
you will need to use a special set of commands to work with files
located on an HFS+ partition, but it doesn't say what those commands
are. 2)The guide says that with two drives, the Mac OS drive should
be placed first and jumpered as master. The linux drive should be
placed second on the IDE chain and jumpered as slave. What about scsi
drives? Do I use Drive Setup to do this?
>Hi Mark,
>I, too, have a beige G3. You need to consult the
>yellowdog install guide for Old World Macs. It works,
>but be
>patient. But, I wasn't able to hook up to the
>internet.
>Cheers
>George
>
>--- Mark Brethen <mbrethen@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>> As a former LinuxPPC user, I purchased yellowdog
>> 2.1. While waiting
>> for it to arrive at my doorstep, I decided to
>> downloaded 2.0 from the
>> ftp site and install it just to familiarize myself
>> with yellowdog.
>> I've followed the install guide but have been
>> unsuccessful in
>> installing it on my second drive. I posted to this
>> list two weeks
>> before and received zero feedback, so I'll try
>> again.
>>
>> For some reason, the installer does not give me the
>> option to install
>> from the hard drive, so I burned the files onto a
>> cd. When I ran the
>> installer again and selected cd/dvd (which is the
>> only choice listed)
>> it kept telling me to insert the cd (as if it was
>> not able to read
>> the cd).
>>
>> If this is what I have to look forward to with 2.1,
>> I may ask for a
>> refund and upgrade to OS X. Can anybody help me? I
>> have a beige G3,
>> two scsi drives, an internal cd and external yamaha
>> 8424 cd burner. I
>> have mac OS 9 on the first scsi drive and I'm trying
>> to install
>> yellowdog on the second scsi drive.
>> --
>>
>>
>> Mark
>> mbrethen@rochester.rr.com
>
>
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