Greetings Juan: First off, some precautions. Before you download or try anything get into the habit of seeing if the software you are interested in (which in this situation is the current YDL operating system) even runs on the machine you have. Fortunately, TSS provides a means of doing just that. Click on the link:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/hardware/breakdown/index.php?hw_cat_id=6 And scroll down to where your computer is listed. You should notice several things: 1. Information regarding the video card you have installed and how YDL runs with that card. For details click upon the phrase "Video information", which appears in blue without the quotes, of course. 2. Notice that although the internal soft modem is NOT supported, links to downloading UNSUPPORTED modem drivers which may work are provided. In order to access these drivers click upon the word "here" highlighted in blue -- without the quotes. As you do so, you will be taken to another website where you may follow the directions there. However, even if you follow all the directions there is no guarantee that the drivers found there will in fact work for you. Consider it more on the order of, "they should work". Note that the recommendation is that you purchase a USB modem, if your softmodem (or internal modem) is not seen or recognized by YDL. Note that because the internal modem is unsupported, your resort to assistance is limited to coming to these lists here or anywhere else on the net gathering whatever information you can. For the sake of fairness, downloading and installing drivers is not as much work as other rather sophisticated demands Linux places upon users, but it is perhaps unfair to expect a complete newbie to engage in such a process. Refer to this link regarding modems, just to get an idea: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-2.html How can you determine whether your modem is seen by YDL or not? Once your YDL system is up and running and you can login and choose a particular desktop -- for this example, we will choose Gnome. The enter your user name and password and then you will be brought into the standard Gnome desktop environment. Look for the yellow on blue image of a dog, this is your desktop menu. Click upon it and look for a label called System Settings, from there move onto select a label called Network. This will open a Dialog Box where you will be asked for the password used by the System Administrator -- this is the same password which is the password for root. Once this is done then something appears called Network Configuration with a group of tabs and it's own menu. Click upon the Hardware tab. Click upon the icon New; this brings up a new dialog box called Choose Hardware Type. You will first see: Hardware type: Wireless following the last s will be a wide v which is intended to be a downward pointing arrow. Press that arrow, it signifies a pop-up where other options... pop-up. Move the cursor over the selections and choose Modem. Now you should see: Hardware type: Modem Now click on Ok. You will see a dialog box appear called Modem configuration. Note that each option offers pop-ups. You are now more familiar with the use of Network Configuration. This is the same dialog box one will have to get to to configure or set up the Ethernet port so that YDL can communicate over DSL. The difference is that when you select the Hardware tab Linux should immediately find the Ethernet hardware within your machine and you should see it associated with eth0 as your device of Type Ethernet. Under the Devices tab you should see: Profile Status Device Nickname Type Inactive eth0 eth0 Ethernet All you need do is make sure Profile has a check under it; then click on the word Activate and as far as Linux is concerned you can start up your browser of choice and complete the process of logging onto or registration with your broadband provider through that browser. You can also use that same browser to configure or setup the router or wireless router provided by the broadband ISP. You could get around the problem of configuring or setting up your modem entirely if you can afford either DSL or other high speed internet. In such a situation you don't need a modem at all, you use your Ethernet port which accepts an Ethernet cable connected to either a DSL or other high speed device. This option will save you time and the details of working through modem details few utilize any more -- it depends upon your needs and what fits you best. Consider also that some companies will say, like Verizon, that they don't support Linux. That doesn't mean that you can't use Linux with their DSL service, but rather they can't or won't help you link YDL (the version of Linux you use) to their DSL or other highspeed networks. Why was the above discussion necessary? It turns out that some ISP's offer prices very close to the same pricing as those services called dial-up services which require the use of a modem. The top speed of the modem is 56K, by U.S. law. At that rate you can easily spend 6-8 hours downloading just one file needed with which to burn the first install CD. There are 4 such files which need to be downloaded, and checked that they are entirely free of error -- this is done via using an md5sum check before one creates or burns the CDs. It is after the CDs have been created then one can begin with the installation process. CD's today are pretty inexpensive. However, if you don't know the details I've explained, you cannot easily turn the fact of inexpensive CD's into something which works for you. In considering the vast amount of time using dial-up technology consumes it should become a bit clearer why broadband services are appearing more reasonable. The slowest DSL available from Verizon cuts the download of one file discussed above to just under 3 hours. If you can afford to pay for more, the same file download time can be cut down to just slightly under 1; there are faster rates at a higher pay rate of course. Not all files are that huge but some programs and projects remain large and seem to be getting larger (and therefore requiring more time to download). The download time doesn't even include the setup procedures necessary to build, or modify the application for use on your system. It could be that an application exists which you want to use running within a Linux environment on an Intel machine. You will then either hope that someone created a binary of that program for use on your PowerPC -- if that doesn't exist you will have to learn to create your own version on your own. This skill is called building an application from source. Let's say for the sake of discussion that a working version of YDL exists already. You have a DSL connection and you can access the net. How do you keep your system updated? Well, that is where a program called yum comes in. Yum does the heavy work for you such as finding where on Earth the programs you are looking for are, what they need to function and many other really neat things. However, discussing yum is a separate subject. I may have provided a wee bit too much information, but once you've selected or narrowed down what it is you need or researched a little further regarding Linux System Administration (several books exist on this subject) you'll see that all I really did is cover general fundamentals since your plea was a bit general in the first place. The Linux Documentation Project is a great Linux resource to have as a newbie. Check them out here: http://www.tldp.org/ Best of Luck.... > On May 28, 2006, at 12:56 AM, Juan R.Leon wrote: > > > Hey folks, > > I am so newbie that I need help in knowing what to download and > > install on a PowerMac G4 Sawtooth. I checked out the various YDL > > mirrors but it looks like hieroglyphics to me!What exactly do I need > > to download? Is any one up to providing me with some discs?Please > > excuse the naive questions,this is very new to me. > > Thanx! > > Juan > > > > _______________________________________________ > > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie > _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
