Installing YDL onto beige G3 (266)

[Åke Svensson]

Hi!

Try giving YDL more space. 3 gb for YDL can be a bit slim. Also, you could try increasing swap space to upwards double your present RAM.

Regards,

Ake Svensson

Den 2 Dec 2002 skrev Paolo G. Cordone:

> I am having a problem when trying to install YDL (either 2.2 or 2.3 
> from the original CD) onto an old beige G3 (266) with 4 Gigs of disk 
> space and about 256 Megs of RAM.
> 
> I have partitioned the drive into two partitions, one unallocated and 
> one for Mac OS. Onto the 1GB partition I have installed Mac OS 8.6.
> Then, I proceed in the usual way, but running the YDL installer, 
> going through the motion of defining the mount points (bootloader, 
> swap and /) and everything goes according to plan.
> 
> The installation procedure starts and proceeds as follows:
> 
> 1) "Reading the install media package database"
> 
> 2) "Resolving package dependencies"
> 
> 3) "Transferring packages"
> 
> Suddenly, just before the overall progress bar begins to fill, the 
> following error dialog comes up:
> 
> =====================
> Error
> -----
> Errors running transaction set!
> 
> Please correct this manually."
> 
> If I click OK, I get:
> 
> "Package install failed.
> =====================
> 
> I have tried and re-tried, re-partitioning, changing the partition 
> order (Mac OS first, unallocated second, etc.), selecting only 
> specific packages, etc. To no avail. The CDs are not damaged as I 
> have used them to install the software many times onto other Macs.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paolo
> -- 
> Paolo G. Cordone
> Associate Lecturer - Information & Communication Technology
> Dublin, Ireland
> http://indigo.ie/~pamolo/
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