Installation Problems on iBook2 w/ Combo drive

[Nathan Weil]

Joshua,
	How are you booting?  Are you holding down 'c' while starting up w/ the
YDL cd in?  Are you trying to install YDL 2.1, or 2.2?  I have the same
system, but only 256MB RAM, and mine booted just fine if I held the 'c'
button down.  If you're trying to install 2.2, I could not get the video
to work, at any resolution, still working on that.  However, 2.1
installed and works just fine.  I did get my copy from an ISO download
however, so there could be a difference there.

Nathan

On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 12:05, Joshua Tompkins wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm having *serious* problems installing YDL 2.2 on an iBook2.  Here's my specs:
> 
> iBook2 (Dual USB)
> Combo (DVD/CD-RW) Drive
> G3 600
> 386 MB RAM
> 20 gig HD
> 
> And when I try to install, the installer tells me that I don't have a cd-rom drive!
> 
> There are instructions that are supposed to remedy this on the YDL website, but those instructions do not work on my system!  The files that I'm supposed to [cat] (based on instructions at <a href="http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/cd_id.shtml">this address</a>) don't exist, so I can't find my CD device ID, which is apparently needed to tell the installer where to find the drive.  Using older versions of the installer kernel (as suggested on the YDL mailing list) also does not work.
> 
> The strange thing is that the kernel seems to find a CD-ROM drive at hdb during the bootup process, but the installer still doesn't work.  When I add the hdb=ide-scsi option to the installer commandline, the installer *still* doesn't work.
> 
> I'm pretty miffed here, as I actually *paid* for my copy of YDL, and didn't buy installation support, because my system was listed on the YDL website as fully supported, and so I'm sort of left hanging.
> 
> Has anyone else had this sort of problem?  Any tips or suggestions for getting the installer working?  This is my first shot at Linux, and I'd very much like to get it running on my iBook.
> 
> TIA
> 
> -joshua