YDL 2.2 and PPC 7500

[Rich Dolinsky]

Depends on how much you are installing.  And in general it needs about
double what u r trying to install.  Voice of experience....

on 6/15/02 1:20 AM, Mark Walker at walkermh@earthlink.net wrote:

> 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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