Subject: Re: Wanna By some Disks cheap
From: Timothy A. Seufert (tas@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Oct 30 2001 - 13:09:38 MST
At 8:17 PM -0800 10/29/01, Dan Calhoun wrote:
>YDL 2.1
>
>I thought I could make this OS work but I guess that it's way over my head I
>have been trying for three days now to load YDL 2.1 on a spare MAc 8500/604e
>200, on a partitioned 4.5 gb HD. Using 8.6 OS on the Mac Side.
>I have reformatted the HD 3 times, loaded mac OS 3 times, I get through all
>the dialog, formatting, assigning mount points and then I get random freezes
>that are driving me up the wall, I almost got all the way through thisa
>evening the progress bar came within 3/8 of an inch from completing the load
>when it locks up forcing a reboot and guess what we start all over again.
>This went on for about 6 hrs Sunday and tonight same crapola.
How long did you wait after the progress bar stopped? I've seen that
happen when installing on an older machine (PowerBook 2400 in my
case) -- at first I thought it was crashing but I decided to try to
wait it out, and it turned out that it eventually did come back to
life and finish the install.
-- Tim Seufert
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