YDL 2.2 and PPC 7500

[Åke Svensson]

I've installed YDL 2.0 on 2 7600:S and I found that it mainly was the swap space that mattered. Try increasing swap to double your amount of ram. Otherwise 3-4 GB harddisk space would be ample for the ext2 partition.

Regards,

Ake Svensson

Den 15 Jun 2002 skrev Mark Walker:

> 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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