Re: champion 1.1 7200/120 no install


Subject: Re: champion 1.1 7200/120 no install
From: Sam Rae (iconcow@mac.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 20:32:44 MST


Dennis,

I actually did my partitioning in the MacOS with pdisk. Is this a bad way to
do it? Should I be doing it in the installer instead?

> From: Dennis Moser <aldus@angrek.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 21:14:58 -0600
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: champion 1.1 7200/120 no install
>
> Sam,
> Couple of comments here, since it is of immediate interest:
>
> In the past week I have done no less than four install of YDL CS 1.1, on
> both an 8500(was a 233, as of tonight it's a 445 G3 Dragon!!! Got my G3
> card, oh yeah!) and on a 7200/75.
>
> More specifics: the 7200 is 7200/75 144Mb/1.2Gb + 2.0Gb. The Linux is goes
> on the 2Gb drive. I have installed CS 1.1 on this latter machine three
> times: 1. From a CD I burned myself from the ISO image on line ( I then
> used the same CD to install CS 1.1 on 8500 with a FULL install) 2. With an
> FTP install (this WAS painfull!!!!!), and finally 3. from "official" YDL
> CDs that just arrived this week from Terra. This last one went VERY
> smoothly and has been stable since the install (http://gwagen.disas.org).
> My disks didn't seemed to be reversed...(Source was Source and Install was
> Install).
>
> For what it's worth, the manual could stand to have a little bit of
> explanation about the disk formatting and its implications later on in the
> install. The first time you go through and use fdisk you have to back out
> as far as you can and RESTART THE MAC so that your partitions will be
> recognized. Can't tell you many times I didn't do that and it came back to
> bite me later. If you aren't doing that, Sam, you might want to try. Can't
> remember who pointed this little trick out to me, but I'm sharing here as
> means of public thank-you. And it doesn't hurt to totally blow away the old
> Linux partitions with fdisk when you go to install again. Just make sure to
> back out and reboot.
>
> Be sure and do ALL your Linux launching from the BootX AFTER the Mac OS has
> finished loading. What with the Very Fine Video capabilities of the 7200, I
> found this to be the most stable way to do it (Gosh, I can see what it's
> doing! No blind typing!).
>
> So why did I do three installs on this machine? Well, the first one had
> some glitches that I couldn't account for, so I tried the second install
> via ftp. That actually failed about mid way through, leaving me with a
> "dead" drive (it wasn't really dead, just a half-installed,
> Linux-partitioned useless drive!). Turns out that my CD drive was dying,
> which caused the minor glitches in the first install. I pulled the drive,
> pulled the Toshiba drive out of my external, put it in the 7200 and used
> the newly-arrived CDs from Terra.
>
> Now if I could only get X to run...8-)...thank heavens for webmin
> (http://www.webmin.com)! I can telnet in and I can do web-based admin of
> the box without X. Not totatlly convinced that I want to use X on the 7200
> any way.
>
> Hope this helps a little.
>
> Dennis Moser
>
>> Did you try the Source CD?
>> Like I said, the labels may have been swapped.
>> Also, are you sure no LinuxPPC cruft is on your system from a previous
>> install.
> {SNIP}
>>>> If you bought the cds recently, verify which disk the install files are
>>>> on. One of our recent cd batches had the cd labels reversed so the Source
>>>> cd is actually the Install cd in that case.
>
>>>>> I'M doing the install from teh cD. I'm following step by step
>>>>> installation as in the booklet.
>
>
>
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