Installing 2.3 on dual 800 MHz

[Bill Fink]

Hi Dave,

On Tue Aug 20 2002, Dave wrote:

> I'm attempting to install YDL 2.3 on a Dual 800 MHz G4, with an Nvidia
> GeForce 2 card.
> 
> When I boot from the cd, I enter "install-gui video=ofonly". When it opens
> the installer, it's the "old-school" one, with all the bright colors,
> without a windowed-GUI. But when I boot from the CD on an iMac, it opens the
> GUI installer in X just fine, with the YDL-like windows...
> 
> It installs fine and everything on the G4, but after I reboot, it shows a
> text-only screen asking me to login, except this screen keeps blinking.
> After about a minute, it says something's respawning too fast, and it
> disables it... I think I've narrowed this problem down to the graphics card.
> 
> I've been able to boot into X once, but that was only with 8 bit color,
> which looks pretty bad.
> 
> So, is there a way to get all this working, so when I start her up, it goes
> directly to the KDE login screen, with 24 or 32 bit color?
> 
> Maybe there's a tutorial out there for installing YDL with Nvidia cards?

Yup.

    http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/nvidia.shtml

In general there are a lot of helpful HOWTOs at the Support section
of the YellowDog Linux web site.

						-Regards

						-Bill