Okay, I made a 100mb HFS partition at the beginning of the disk, and called it bootstrap. I copied the kernel, the ramdisk image, yaboot, and yaboot.conf there. You have to edit the paths in the yaboot.conf to point to your new partition, as in hd:,vmlinux etcetera.
Then boot to OpenFirmWare, and type boot hd:,yaboot. You will then boot into the installer on the ramdisk, and can do a network install.
I have a Firewire CDRW, but the installer doesn't give you the option to install from a Firewire drive, and I cannot boot from the CDRW :(
I have used this method to install Yellowdog 4, Debian, and NetBSD just fine. Maybe Fedora PPC too at one point...
Good luck! Let me know if you need a yaboot.conf, I may have one somewhere.
Linc
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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:10:15 -0500 From: Kenneth Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: CD isn't booting To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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I know this has been beat to death but I can't find anyting on my particular problem. What I have is the Blue and White G3. The YDL 4.0 CD doesn't boot when I hold C. I can get into the Open Firmware (it is version 3.1.1) using CMD
Another possibility? Did you properly burn the ISO image. Folks have been know to just copy the image to a cd which won't cut it.
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