Jay,The hard part is downloading your .iso file if you just have dialup service. (You can download the .iso on any machine, just make sure you choose the one you want for you PPC and don't try to open it until you burn it on the Mac.) Once you have a clean .iso, just drag the file into the LEFT panel on your PPC Disc Utility program, select it and click the Burn icon on your tool bar. You'll need a capable burner with a blank DVD in the tray, ready to go. It should burn. Otherwise, if you know how to use the OS X terminal, you can do it with hdutil. DON"T try to partition your hard drive with OS X Disc Utility unless you want to reformat it. IPartition ($40.00) can do that and there was an active discussion on Ubuntu PPC forum recently about using a free Linux utility to do the same thing. Was it gparted? I can't recall. You can check it out. Obviously, changing partition sizes with data on your drive is chancy so always back up everything you wouldn't want to lose. You can verify your DVD after burning in Disc Utility. Presumably if it checks out o.k., it should be good to go. YDL is supposed ;-) to install without difficulty on your Mac.
Good luck.
JimOn Sep 14, 2007, at 5:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I read the howto (http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_5.0/ydl-net- config.shtml) but found it confusing. I don't have a YDL DVD, can't afford to buy one, and can't burn one. I have a cd burner on my windoz box and could burn a boot.iso from there if I had a link to dowload it. I don't see why a webserver is necessary but I have apache running on osx if that is of any use. I searched netinstall on the ts site, but didn't find anything useful.Googling around, I found a free app called "magic disk" that looks like it can burn a dvd to flash or a partition, but I haven't tried it yet. Can the mac disk utility or hdutil do anything like that?-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Aaron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Jim, You may want to consider buying a DVD box set from TSS as this is the easiest way, other options include downloading and burning all the CD images, or doing a netinstall only using a boot.iso. Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:HiI've got YDL 3 and I want to upgrade to 5. I don't have a DVD burner and I'm,shall we say, pecuniarily challenged.know how to do it? How about on an unused hard drive or partition? It seemsCan I "burn" the DVD image to a flash drive and boot up from that? Anybodylike this should be possible.yum upgrade and got all my vers. 3 packages updated but I don't see how toAlternatively, is it possible to use yum or apt to upgrade from 3 to 5? I ranupdate to a new level. Is this possible?Thanks! Jim _______________________________________________ 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_______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
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