YDL 2.2 and PPC 7500

[Mark Walker]

At this rate I'll never find out.  I am getting a cd from tuxcds.com.
Appears my iso is not a good download.  I ran md5sum with a different tool
and it returned failed files.

> I have YDL 2.2 on my Power Macintosh 7600/132 73mb RAM on a 6GB partition and
> YDL 2.2 doesn't work very well on it, YDL 2.1 works better because in YDL 2.2
> if you decide to boot up in to graphical mode the mouse doesn't work and other
> problems occure. Other programs like MOL, kio-mac and some others don't work
> either. I don't know how YDL 2.2 will work on a 7500 with a G3 upgrade but th
> 7600 has the same mother board as the 7500.
> 
> --- Mark Walker <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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