Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:00:45 -0600 (MDT)
Carlos,
Apparently, the cdrom drive in the Umax (not sure which models) seem to be
unaccesible by the installer. I'm not sure what to tell you, perhaps you
should try local HFS or another method of installation.
Dan
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Velasquez, Carlos wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just purchase Yellow dog linux for my Mac clone and I am having some
> problems installing it. My configuration is a Umax S900 running with 604e
> PPC and 162Meg Ram. I have 2 hard drives (both SCSI-2) and one Jazz Drive.
> Video-wise, this system came with an IMS Twin Turbo graphics card with 8Meg
> of video ram.
>
> The problem: When I get to the point where the installer asks to load the CD
> into the CD-ROM (also a SCSI device) it reports back that a mount parameter
> error; "Unable to mount /dev/scd0/" I have also tried copying the entire CD
> to my Jazz drive and tried installing from there, but to no avail (I get a
> "tree directory not found" or something like that.) Has anyone encountered
> this problem or can anyone suggest a fix?
> Thanks!
>
> Carlos
>
> P.S. I also downloaded and am using the latest installer.
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> C.F. Velasquez
> Asst. Vice President
> Global Database and Technology Division
> Salomon Smith Barney, Inc.
>
>
Dan
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
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