Subject: Re: install image
From: Hamlin R. Krewson (graywolf@vrac.iastate.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 25 1999 - 19:17:41 MDT
Wrote it in macos using Toast 3.5.5. Opened the image using Disk Copy 6.3.2.
I can access the disk just fine in MacOS, the installer just hangs at that
point (looking for the disk).
> From: Ed Jaeger <ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com>
> Organization: Bohlender Graebener Corporation
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 17:05:25 -0800
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: install image
>
> I burned a CD from a downloaded ISO image & it worked flawlessly. I
> used gcombust (a front end to cdrecord) on a linux machine to make the
> cd, but ISO9660 is ISO9660, any software should be able to do it without
> problems. Did you check the md5sum of the image you downloaded to make
> sure nothing's corrupt?
>
> "Hamlin R. Krewson" wrote:
>>
>> I downloaded the installer image, opened it up (created a disk called "PPC")
>> and burned it as an ISO 9660 cdrom. But, when I boot into the installer and
>> tell it to install from a local CDRom nothing happens. Well, the CD drive
>> lights flash as it accesses the drive, but the installer never comes back
>> with anything. Has this happened to anyone else? Has anyone successfully
>> burned and used the image from the yellowdog ftp site? Oh, I'm on a
>> PPC8500/132/96MB with a Yamaha CRW4416s internal CDRW, and am trying to
>> install on an external Quantam Fireball 1280.
>
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> Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation
> ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com
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> you end up being governed by your inferiors."
>
> -- Plato
>
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