I can't install YDL2.2 on a Performa 6400

[Sean O. Denney]

BootX should work all the way back to OS 7.5, but having OS 9 would
probably be a good thing to have.

Secondly, Apple's Drive Setup sucks.  Try to find a copy of pdisk (try
www.mklinux.org).  pdisk is the best utility for partitioning drives.

Also, are you trying a full install, a custom install, or one of the
pre-set options?  A full or custom install will probably give more
problems than one of the pre-set options.

You may also want to up the RAM to max it out.  It helps especially
with KDE (it's a black hole for memory).

--- Sean

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Agustin Palacios wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I hava a
> 
> Performa 6400 PowerPC 603ev at 180Mhz
> 56 MB
> HD 1.6G
> MacOS 8
> 
> and I'am trying to install YDL2.2 but I've been having a problem:
> during the package installation, it will hang about 2/3 of
> the way through the "Transferring packages" part.  An error
> dialog comes up and says "Error:  Errors running transaction
> set!  Please correct this manually."  I click ok and get a
> new dialog:  "Package install failed."
> 
> Is MacOS 8 the problem? Do I need MacOS 9 or MacOS X? Is the problem the 
> Drive Setup utility (it does not allow me to set a partition as unllocated)?
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Agustin