RE: At the end of my installation rope... and frustrated!


Subject: RE: At the end of my installation rope... and frustrated!
From: OpticNerve, Inc. - Information (opticnerve_info@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 07:46:11 MDT


Dan:

We have a stock Blue/White G3 from October 1999. Nothing has ever been added
to the machine (with the exception of the new 20GB IDE hard drive that was
supposed to be used for YD2.0).

128MB RAM
MacOS 8.6

This machine could not possibly be more basic.

Tal

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Burcaw [mailto:dburcaw@terraplex.com]
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 12:34 AM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
Subject: Re: At the end of my installation rope... and frustrated!

Tal,

Okay, so I looked back at some of your messages and didn't
see any details other then that you have a B&W w/ a zip drive.
Can you tell me about your system's other periperhals
and PCI cards?

-Dan

On Thursday 06 September 2001 10:15, you wrote:
> Dan:
>
> I was so excited to get your posting that I dropped everything and gave
> your suggestion a try.
>
> Unfortunately, no dice. I still get nothing beyond
>
> > Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
>
> The screen does, however, include ide_setup: hda=noautotune
>
> I have been looking forward to this YD2.0 for about 8 months now. Any
> assistance will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Burcaw [mailto:dburcaw@terraplex.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 9:04 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: At the end of my installation rope... and frustrated!
>
>
>
>
> Tal,
>
> At the yaboot "boot: " prompt, type:
>
> install-gui hda=noautotune
>
> Does that get you further?
>
> On Thursday 06 September 2001 14:16, you wrote:
> > Thanks Bob. I too waited patiently for YD2.0 and am rather disappointed.
> >
> > As a matter of fact, I just began downloading the new Mandrake 8.0 for
>
> PPC.
>
> > Personally, I would rather work with YD as I am a big fan of Red Hat,
but
> > unless I get some feedback from someone at YellowDog, I guess I will
have
> > no option but to investigate Mandrake.
> >
> > So, if there is a YellowDog person monitoring this list, at the very
>
> least,
>
> > please let me know if I am experiencing a known bug, or if I am doing
> > something wrong.
> >
> > At this point, all I have done is put the CDROM into the drive and held
> > down the 'c' key during reboot.
> >
> > Peace,
> >
> > Tal
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bob
> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:04 PM
> > To: Opticnerve_info
> > Subject: RE: At the end of my installation rope!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Just between you and I.
> >
> > Definitely DONT believe much of what you read on the YDL website. I too
> > have had nothing
> > but trouble with YDL. If you read the maillist ... you'll see there are
> > ALOT of open issues still.
> >
> > I am trying to setup a Beowolf cluster of 10 Dual 533MHz MACs. They
have
> > been sitting idle
> > since April waiting for YDL to be straigthened out and BLL to be
> > delievered. :-(
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "OpticNerve, Inc. - Information" <opticnerve_info@yahoo.com> on
> > 09/06/2001 12:57:49 PM
> >
> > Please respond to yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> >
> > To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> > cc:
> >
> > Subject: RE: At the end of my installation rope!
> >
> >
> > I am definitely with you. It looks like the machine is still in the boot
> > process alright. I have tried not only hitting every key, I am thinking
> > about trying every key again with a hammer. ;)
> >
> > In case my question was not clear...
> >
> > I am trying to do a new installation from the YD2.0 CDROM that I made
> > from the ISO that I downloaded. Perhaps I am mistaken, but isn't on of
> > the "big deals" with YellowDog how nice and easy their new installer is
> > supposed to be? I have been working with Linux now for about 4 years,
and
> > at this moment
> > I feel like a complete idiot.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cdowns [mailto:cdowns]On Behalf Of cdowns
> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:13 PM
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Subject: Re: At the end of my installation rope!
> >
> >
> > It looks like the machine is still in boot process ? have you waited or
> > just
> > hit enter ? ive seen YDL machines just sit there till you hit enter.
Also
> > you could try to boot into single user mode: at lilo type:
linux --single
> > -D
> > "OpticNerve, Inc. - Information" wrote:
> > We have this Blue/White G3 that has literally been used as a paperweight
> > since March 2000. The machine was purchased in October of 1999, so I
> > guess this makes it a "NEW WORLD" system.
> > The machine has 128MB RAM, a 400MHz CPU, and runs MacOS 8.6.
> > A brand new 20GB IDE drive is THE ONLY THING that has ever been added to
> > this machine, expressly for the purpose of installing YD2.0.
> > The new 20GB IDE drive has been formatted into 4 equal partitions.
> > In an effort to breath new life into this machine, I am attempting to
> > install YD2.0, which I have been told should be a simple process (yea
> > right). We are a 100% RH Linux shop, so getting this machine
> > up-and-running
> > as a Linux box will make me look great.
> > So, to this end, I downloaded the ISOs for YD2.0 and burned them to CDs.
> > Following the Engineering instructions from the YellowDog web site, I
> > made sure that a ZIP disk was in the ZIP drive.
> > I restart the machine and hold down the 'c' key. The system boots to the
> > CD
> > ROM.
> > At this point I think I am going to be a hero.
> > And then I get the following message, and everything comes to a halt.
> > ---BEGIN MESSAGE---
> > Welcome to yaboot version 1.1.1
> > boot: install
> > Loading Kernel...
> > Elf32 Kernel loaded
> > Loading ramdisk...
> > via_calibrate_decr:decrementer_count = 249346 (1496078 ticks)
> > Console: colour dummy device 80x25
> > Calibrating delay loop... 796.26 BogoMIPS
> > Memory: 122752 available (1784 kernel code, 2748k data, 188k init)
> > [c0000000, ebf00000]
> > Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 1024k)
> > Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 5, 512k)
> > Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
> > UFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> > POSIX confomance testing by UNIFIX
> > PCI: probing PCI Hardware
> > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0
> > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> > IP protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> > TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
> > NET4: Appletalk .18 for Linux NET4.0
> > Initialing RT netlink socket
> > Starting kswapd v 1.5
> > clgen: Driver for Cirrus Logic based graphic boards, v1.5.2
> > Couldn't find PCI device
> > aty128fb:detected XCLK=0x2711, ref_div=0x1b
> > aty128fb:Rage128 RE (PCI) [chip rev 0x2] 16m 128-bit SDR SGRAM (1:1)
> > Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
> > fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on /pc1@80000000/ATY,Rage128x@10
> > aty128fb:detected XCLK=0x2711, ref_div=0x23
> > fb0: ATY Rage128 frame buffer device on
> > /pc1@80000000/pci-bridge@d/ATY,Rage128o@2
> > IBM_E15: initializing
> > IBM_E15: could not find S3 864 in system
> > input0: Macintosh mouse button emulation
> > Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
> > ---END MESSAGE---
> > I have literally spent the last 48 hours searching for some assistance
> > all over the YelloDog web site, the mailing lists, and even through
> > Google. Unfortunataly, I am still stuck. I even took the time to
> > re-download the ISOs and re-burn them. Still nothing. So, I am hoping
> > that someone can at least tell me what all of this means.
> > Any input whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.
> > Regards,
> > Tal Golan
> > opticnerve_info@yahoo.com
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Regards, Dan Burcaw Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.

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