2.1 install problems on 8500

[Jamey Osborne]

I have two 8600s that use YDL on....  Close enough, right?

One option you might consider (but do some research first to corroborate 
my results for your specific machine) is a bigger HD.  An earlier 
response mentioned buying an old SCSI drive, but after checking around I 
found that the 8600 HD isn't SCSI, but plain old ATA (i.e., IDE).  I 
swapped the old 2 GB drive for a 40 GB off the Circuit City shelf and 
haven't looked back!  Best $110 I've spent!  Took me longer to get the 
case open than it did to change the drive and install YDL 2.1!

HTH,

Jamey Osborne



Yeti wrote:

> Found out that my power mac 8500 isn't supported by OSX...
> So I downloaded the fuji install image... followed all the
> directions pretty darn accurately but I am running into some
> install problems...
> First things first...
>   Does YDL 2.1 support my system?
>     powermac 8500 
>     80mb ram
>     MacOS 8.1
>     original 1gb hard drive, i gave it two partitions
>      the bare minimum for os8.1 (like 75mb or so) and
>      the rest (955mb) for linux.
>  I was thinking that mabey I need more than 1GB...
> cause of the install menu that says
>  "you need following partitions"
> 10mb boot, 128mb swap, 1+GB linux...
> 
> cool
> -Jon