Subject: Re: champion 1.1 7200/120 no install
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Thu Jan 20 2000 - 20:43:33 MST
Sam,
I heard from someone that MacOS pdisk is broken. I'd try the installer
version.
> 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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> > --John Stuart Mill (1806-73)
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> >
> >
> >
>
>
Regards,
Dan
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