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Hi Jeffrey: Just some minor points regarding the instructions posted earlier. Did you copy ramdisk.image.gz from the 1st YDL Install CD and place that into your Mac OS Classic System Folder? For installation, make sure you check "Use specified ramdisk" and save. Then BootX will look for that ramdisk which exists on the CD. BEFORE that however make sure that the HD onto which you will install YDL has been formatted using Apple's Disk Utility (this same tool in the Classic OS had a different name which I've forgotten). Anyway it alone needs to be used to format the HD as a Free Space partition. If you have only one HD and you intend to split that HD so that the Mac OS resides in one portion and YDL on another, be aware that using Apple's utility will destroy the Mac partition. You should then back up everything on the Mac OS side, boot from the Apple install disk and access that utility from that Apple Install Disk and then format that one drive into two partitions: * one for the Mac OS * the other partition for YDL as Free Space. You'll then have to reinstall BootX, preferably from a back-up restore procedure, and then proceed. The one other way to avoid this is to use that same application available from the Apple install disk to format a completely different hard drive which will be dedicated entirely to YDL. Returning to BootX, AFTER the above is done, then the formatting tools within Anaconda can be used to create the standard ext3 partitions. Of course, after your YDL installation is successful you uncheck "Use Specified ramdisk" and enter the root partition on the HD where YDL is to boot from. Click Save, so that BootX refers to that partition and not the ramdisk? It's these little details that makes Life so interesting... Good Luck... ========= Jeffrey Rolland wrote: Hello again, all! I tried a few different things, and wanted to provide more specific feedback in the hopes that it may be useful information to some.Trial 1: For BootX, I was using the kernel vmlinux-2.6.10-1.ydl.1 included on the 4.0.1 CD (not the vmlinux-2.6.8-1.ydl.7 indicated in <http:// www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?t=249> ("how to install YDL 4.0 on old world mac?") and <http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php? t=381>). I was using ramdisk size 58192. I was using the "More Kernel arguments" of "video=controlfb:vmode:13,cmode:32". I am not sure what ramdisk I was using. For the CD, I was using the 4.0.1 CD. The exact error message I received was " 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback File "/usr/bin/anaconda:, line 193 if outfields[0] == "connecting" and outfields[-1] == "failed": ^ SynatxError: invalid syntax " The rest just indicated how the system abended and I could restart my machine. Trial 2: For BootX, I was using the kernel vmlinux-2.6.10-1.ydl.1 included on the 4.0.1 CD. I was using ramdisk size 58192. I was using the "More Kernel arguments" of "video=controlfb:vmode:13,cmode:32". I was using the ramdisk supplied on the 4.0.1 CD. For the CD, I was using the 4.0.1 CD. The exact error message I received was " install exited abnormally " The rest just indicated how the system abended and I could restart my machine. Trial 3: For BootX, I was using the kernel vmlinux-2.6.10-1.ydl.1 included on the 4.0.1 CD. I was using ramdisk size 58192. I was using the "More Kernel arguments" of "video=controlfb:vmode:13,cmode:32". I was using the ramdisk supplied on the 3.0.1 CD. For the CD, I was using the 4.0.1 CD. The exact error message I got was from Anaconda, and it said " You don't have enough RAM to run Yellow Dog. [OK] " (This is obviously silly, since I have 1 GB of RAM, but at least Anaconda ran.) Trial 4: For BootX, I was using the kernel vmlinux-2.6.10-1.ydl.1 included on the 4.0.1 CD. I was using ramdisk size 18192. I was using the "More Kernel arguments" of "video=controlfb:vmode:13,cmode:32". I was using the ramdisk supplied on the 3.0.1 CD. For the CD, I was using the 4.0.1 CD. The exact error message I got was from Anaconda, and it said " You don't have enough RAM to run Yellow Dog. [OK] " (This is again obviously silly.) Hope this is of some use to someone. Sincerely, -- Jeffrey Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Begin forwarded message:From: Jeffrey Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: August 20, 2006 4:08:25 PM CDT To: [email protected] Subject: Problems installing Yellow Dog Linux onto Old World Mac Reply-To: Discussion List for New Yellow Dog Linux Users <yellowdog- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, all! I am attempting to install Yellow Dog Linux (versions 3.0.1 and 4.0.1 burned and tried, 2.3 burned but not yet tried, waiting for CDs onto which to burn 4.1) onto an Old World Mac (Power Macintosh 7500 with 1 GB RAM and a 50 GB HD (10 GB Mac OS 8.6 and 40 GB unformatted)) and I am having trouble. The 4.0.1 disk won't load Anaconda (the YDL installer engine) and crashes. The 3.0.1 disk will load Anaconda, but won't read the 3.0.1 disk for data and keeps waiting for readable CD; the 3.0.1-loaded Anaconda will read the 4.0.1 disk a little bit, but then crashes. Is there anybody on the list who has experience using BootX and mayhap even experience installing YDL on a machine this old? I am contacting TerraSoft about purchasing installation support, but the Mac is so old that I have little hope for this. Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide. Sincerely, -- Jeffrey Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ 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 |
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