YDL 2.2 and PPC 7500

[Mark Walker]

You mean YDL 2.2 needs more that 6.8 GB of HD space?

> You don't have enough hard drive space for all the things you are trying to
> install.  Segmentation fault occurs when it runs out of hd space.  You may
> say but it says the installation needs less than what I have, that may be
> true, but thats how much space it needs when it is finished with the
> installation.  The reason you need more is the packages are compressed and
> when you install it uses hard drive space to uncompress then install.  Try
> choosing less things during the install..like a core install.  Then install
> one extra package at a time until you have everything you wanted.  Hope this
> helps
> 
> on 6/15/02 12:52 AM, Mark Walker at walkermh@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
>> My second attempt to find a solution.
>> Will YDL 2.2 run on a PPC 7500 with 320 MB RAM, 2 SCSI HHD (9.1 GB and
>> 4.5GB), Voodoo 3 2000, a Sonnet G3 400 upgrade card, a Belkin USB pci card
>> and no known hardware problems?
>> Mac OS 9.0.4 runs fine, yes that is a relative fine, the sole reason for
>> installing Linux.
>> If  you have had success in installing YDL on a system similar to this, I
>> would appreciate your help, suggestions, or even laughter, just no silence.
>> I have had experience installing Linux on Intel boxes with no problems.
>> When attempting to install, using BootX with the text ramdisk (the video
>> ramdisk will not run) selected, G3 cache enabled and selected, Force video
>> setting selected and using vmLinux 2.2 kernel (2.4 will not get past the
>> boot sequence before dying).  The problem that prior to finishing
>> installing, I get an error message stating a Segmentation Fault occurred and
>> to reboot.  This can occur during initial setup, formatting the partitions
>> (on the 9.1 GB drive: 10MB boot, 256 Swap, and 6883 ext2.  1.5 is for the
>> Mac OS) or while installing the packages.
>> I've been at this on and off for about a month.  I've downloaded and burned
>> 2.2 three times (Win2000 boxes), checksum ran fine.
>> I can find nothing on any of the Linux for PPC sites.
>> 
>> I would greatly appreciate any help
>> Mark
>> Frustrated Wanting to run Linux on my Mac.
>> 
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