Wow, I'm surprised that even Debian wouldn't run on an Old World machine. The Debian fanatics always make a big point about how it will run on just about anything. I'm very interested in trying to get a newer version of YDL (i.e. 4.0.1) running on an old beige G3. It's too bad that it appears to be so difficult.
I'll have to check into what actually _will_ run on the Old World machines. I was pretty sure that the most recent version of Debian would install, but with a fairly high degree of effort. I'm a Debian user at work (on x86 machines), so I'm quite familiar with installing it; I also have Debian running on a dual G4 at home. -PRH On Wednesday 30 August 2006 19:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, all! > > Well, I checked the MD5Sum on the .iso I downloaded,and it's > 33f5f2a407f36dfbb01946ece46bdf73, exactly what it's supposed to be (just > as I thought). That means that either (a) something's wrong with the > physical disk (which I doubt), (b) there's something wrong with my CD > burner/Disk Utility (which I doubt) or (c) there's something entirely > different going on, with 3.0.1 *and* 4.0 displaying these bizarre, > reproducible errors. > > There is an "InstallFest" scheduled for the local Linux User's Group on > September 9; I'll see if they can shed any light on my woes. > Unfortunately, most of them are x86 people, and, of those that are PowerPC > people, I'm guessing most are New World people; thus, even the InstallFest > may be of little help. > > Sincerely, > -- > Jeffrey Rolland > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- > Subject: Re:Problems installing Yellow Dog Linux onto Old World Mac > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, August 30, 2006 2:46 pm > To: [email protected] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Hello, again, all! > > Debian-PowerPC and KUbuntu-PPC didn't work at all (couldn't even get the > installer to run), so I'm back to YDL. > > I have discovered that part of my problem was trying to install 4.0.1 on > an Old World Mac. > > The directions in <http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?t=339> are > for 4.0, *not* 4.0.1 or 4.1; vmlinux-2.6.8-1.ydl.7 is the kernel that > actually ships with 4.0, and is incompatible with 4.0.1 for sure and 4.1 > assumedly. > > Having said that, I now get a "corrupt gcclib package" error at the start > of the installation (instead of the consistent hangs I got with 3.0.1). > > Would anyone happen to have a copy of the original TerraSoft CDs for 4.0 > (and maybe even the manual) I could buy from them? My 7500 can't read > CD-RWs and is very finicky about which CD-Rs it will read, so I really > need the original TerraSoft copies to isolate for where I'm getting the > problem. > > Thanks much for all the help; I'll post to the YDL boards once I'm sure > what the problems are - the 4.0/4.0.1 thing was a big step forward! _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
