Trouble Reinstalling YDL 2.3

[kaos]

I think I know what the problem is.

The Yellow Dog installer, for lack of a better description, sucks ass. 
In my opinion, the YDL installer is the worst linux installer available 
right now.

What kind of linux installation program doesn't give you the option to 
install over a network?  Or from a hard drive partition? Or from 
something OTHER than the CDROM drive?

I've been trying like hell to get YDL installed onto a PowerCenter 150 
clone with a SCSI CD-ROM drive that isn't able to read CD-R media. 
Hence, I can't burn an .iso and install from CD.

First, I tried making boot floppies and using YDL's installer ramdisk 
images. That failed about a dozen times, so I decided to just install 
Mac OS 8 again and use BootX. This worked great as far as booting a 
linux kernel from the HFS partition and loading YDL's installation 
ramdisk image. From that point, I was very disappointed to find out that 
my only installation media option was "CD/DVD Drive".

This has really caused me to lose a lot of respect for YDL.

What I suggest you do is use an alternate PPC linux distribution, such 
as Debian, SuSE, or Mandrake. Their installers look to be far superior 
to YDL's and I'm willing to bet that support (if needed) will be much 
better too. I've found that these distributions have much better 
documentation and a more knowledgable user base (from browsing mailing 
list archives).

Good luck.

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[kaos]
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puli brothers wrote:
> I had YDL 2.3 installed and running, and decided I wanted to reinstall 
> to try some different things.
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> Now when I try to run the install from the YDL 2.3 CD I get an error 
> message no matter which set of packages I select:
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> Failed to open
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> /tmp/root/var/cache/yup/packages/tcsh-6.106.ppc.rpm
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> I tried selecting the individual packages, and deselecting the tcsh 
> shell, but that did not seem to work.
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> Any ideas what is wrong?
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> Thanks