Re: Weird install problem, hope someone can help


Subject: Re: Weird install problem, hope someone can help
From: Michael French (mfrench@ashevillemail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 15:55:59 MDT


    Thanks for the reply, I am in the process of d/l'ding the Mandrake
PPC to see if that works any better.

Michael French
Asheville Citizen-Times
IT Dept.
(828)236-8966
----- Original Message -----
From: "L. S." <dreamaaster@yahoo.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: Weird install problem, hope someone can help

> Got to the Yellow Dog site and read the last paragraph under "Why YDL
> 2.0?" It says, in part, "And on newer hardware? While we do not yet
> support the 2001 G4s with NVIDIA cards, the ATI Rage128-based G3 and
G4s
> are fast, furious, and rock solid."
>
> (It's not very rock solid, by the way. My G3 crashes HARD--Mac OS
> style--every day or so if I work too long in X, or if I try to access
an
> audio CD with sound disabled in X. 1.2 was more stable, for me.)
>
> "French, Michael" wrote:
> >
> > Just got one of the brand new Quicksiler G4 866Mhz, 1GB Ram,
> > 60HD, added 30GB second drive. Has the Nvidia card in it and a
> > superdrive (DVD-R/CD-R). Comes with both OS X and 9.2 installed,
they
> > boot fine. Added the second disk, it is seen, I just left it as free
> > space. Put in my shiny new Yellow Dog 2.0 install CD (bought at the
> > store) and rebooted and held down the "C", nothing else. Sites
forever
> > at the grey screen, kinda sounds like there is a little cd activity.
> > After about 30 secs, the little Mac computer icon comes up and it
boots
> > into whatever the Startup disk was set to (tried with both OS X and
9.2)
> > and ignores the cd. What gives? Any suggestions. Thanks for the
help,
> > I would love to get this screamer running linux!
> >
> > Michael French
> > Asheville Citizen-Times
> > IT Dept.
> > (828)236-8966
>
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