RE: Installation issues on "Wall Street" G3 (400/128MB/DVD/6GBHD)


Subject: RE: Installation issues on "Wall Street" G3 (400/128MB/DVD/6GBHD)
From: Sean Fay (ssbob_98@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2001 - 16:03:32 MDT


The real bummer is that this system was a "gift" (aka friends company went
dot.bomb and I recovered this system as is" ... so all I have is the system,
power cord, and mac os 9 and 8 cd's ... I really don't want to have to pay
like 300 dollars for a stinkin cdrom drive just to install Linux.

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Murtagh [mailto:christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 2:53 PM
To: Yellow Dog Linux Support
Subject: Re: Installation issues on "Wall Street" G3
(400/128MB/DVD/6GBHD)

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Sean Fay wrote:
>When I start the install of YDL 2.0 I can get to where the packages are
>selected and the system starts to read from the cd to install the
>packages. But for some reason the cdrom drive then stops and the whole
>installer program seems to hang at about 1 or 2 % into the install.

 I had a similar problem with my WallStreet as well. I think what I ended
up doing is removing the DVD drive and using the CD-ROM for the install.
Also, there were times when I though it was doing it again, and I left the
machine to think about its existence (while I contemplated ending it) and
it recovered and completed the install.

 So, I'd say, try the CD-ROM drive (if you still have it) first, and then
try the 'wait and see'.

Cheers,

Chris

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Christopher Murtagh Webmaster / Sysadmin Web Communications Group McGill University Montreal, Quebec Canada



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