Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 10:44:46 -0600 (MDT)
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Jeffrey Flowers wrote:
> I am intending to order Yellowdog Linux on Tuesday or Wednesday and install
> it on my iMac (Rev C.). If I order, will the update be on CD or would I have
> to download somewthing?
Unfortunatly it will not include the update.
You'd still have to download the update ramdisk.
We'll have some instructions up next week on how to get YDL on your iMac.
(where/what to download things, etc.)
> Also, the Yellowdog site says that it's version will run as the sole OS on
> the Mac but the PDF manual I downloaded says nothing on how to do it. Would
> the tech support for Yellowdog cover this?
>
Yes.. this is true in some cases. Many when Open Firmware is not broken,
etc. (The iMac has some problems with our elf headers, so OF/Quik booting
does not work)
Note we are working to develop a bootloader which will allow YDL to exist
w/o MacOS that works on machines like the iMac.
Anyway, your best bet *for now* is BootX.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeffrey Flowers
>
> ----------
> >From: Dan Burcaw <dburcaw@terraplex.com>
> >To: "Kaan O. Erdener" <kaan@cs.utexas.edu>
> >Subject: Re: iMac install problems
> >Date: Sun, Apr 4, 1999, 11:31 AM
> >
>
> >
> > By the way, in case anyone was wondering...
> > The problems which Kaan has encountered are due to the fact
> > that the installer on the YDL cdrom does NOT have code to detect
> > the iMac. This is fixed in the updated version.
> >
> > (All other pmacs are identified as "Power Mac" or "Power Macintosh"
> > and only the iMac gets called different -- "iMac")
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Kaan O. Erdener wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I recently ordered the Champion Server with the intention of installing it
> >> on an iMac. The Yellow Dog hardware faq claims that at least the
> >> installer is functional on iMacs, "updates available online soon".
> >>
> >> iMac, rev B
> >> virtual memory off (tried on too)
> >> vmlinux, ramdisk.tar.gz present and visible
> >>
> >>
> >> Basically, after following the steps, the only way I could get the
> >> installer to progress past asking which language to use was if I selected
> >> something other than English. If I used "English", the installer
> >> immediately bails out and blames it on an error of type 11. I instead
> >> attempted to install a Turkish linux, and after several error messages
> >> that the necessary files weren't available, the installer defaulted to an
> >> English install and merrily allowed me to progress. However, I
> >> encountered the same error of type 11 during the package installation.
> >>
> >> What's going on? Has anyone else encountered this problem?
> >>
> >> Perhaps I've overlooked something but would be most appreciative of any
> >> tips or suggestions you might have as to what the error 11 results from,
> >> including giving up until Yellow Dog gets the job done properly.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> -kaan
> >>
> >>
> >> _____________________________________________________________________
> >> NAME: Kaan Erdener
> >> PHONE: 512-431-7870
> >> EMAIL: kaan@cs.utexas.edu
> >> INTERNET: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kaan
> >>
> >> "The most beautiful thing in life is to have goals. Without goals you
> >> lose your desire to react, to do something good." -- Marco Pantani
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
> > email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> > website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
> >
> >
> >
>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
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