Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 13:56:22 -0600 (MDT)
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Robert Gilkey wrote:
> Hi,
> I just got my copy of YellowDog and tried to install it last night.
> Unfortunately it didn't quite work.
>
> I am running a Performa 6400 with 48 megs of Ram and an ATI XclaimVR Video
> Card with 4 Megs of Ram.
>
> Well here is what happened.
> I used fdisk (pdisk) to format my drive. The first 4 partitions were left
> untouched.
> I set up 4 partitions:
> root-100MB
> usr-300MB
> home-380MB
> swap- 82MB
>
> Then I began the install process and it went smoothly until after it got
> done checking for overlapping files. The screen flashed "error during
> configure mouse". I am using a standard apple mouse and keyboard. It asked
> to go to Previous, Retry or Menu.
>
> Previous didn't work neither did Retry. I was forced to go to the Menu
> screen (figure 7.3 in the install manual)
>
> I tried skipping the mouse but nothing else worked either.
> I tried using the newest ramdisk.image.gz file and that helped a little. I
> was able to install copy al the files over before I got the Mouse Error
> Message. I also uninstalled my Video Board but that didn't help.
Did you try the latest "updcd_ramdisk.image.gz"?
This is the ramdisk people with the CDROM should be updating to.
Once you've downloaded it, rename it to ramdisk.image.gz.
>
> What am I doing wrong and are there any special tricks for installing on the
> 6400?
>
> Thanks,
> Robert
>
>
Let me know how it works,
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
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