Subject: Re: Installing on Old World G3
From: Robert Brandtjen (rob@prometheusmedia.com)
Date: Tue Sep 04 2001 - 12:15:55 MDT
on 9/3/01 11:58 PM, Isaac at ydl@altruis.net wrote:
> I've got the same computer, and an IDE drive. IT works with the 1.2
> version of YDL. But you can't make partitions larger than about 5 GB. YDL
> doesn't like it. Also, I've had problems trying to install the 2.0 YDL,
> but that never worked--freeze during bootup.
>
> Isaac
>
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Tae H. Han wrote:
>
>> This is similar to the problem I had. I could partition the drive using
>> the Mac disk utility, but then when I went into the linux installer, it
>> would not detect my hds. As it turned out, there is something bad about
>> the detection of the hd if it is scsi0. So, after checking out the
>> quantum site to get info on changing the scsi setting, I set the hd to
>> scsi2 (I think) and then had no problems with the installer.
>>
>>
My YDL box is booting on scsi dev 0, id 0 (/dev/sda6) - the installer used
it just fine.
Robert Brandtjen
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