new ibook 2002 install failure

[Stefan Jeglinski]

Just received the new 800MHz ibook, 14". I guess that's the same as 
the "2002 dual USB," but technically those were the earlier ones this 
year.

YDL 2.3 installer will only run in the install-text-safe mode, 
everything proceeds nicely until I get that well-known and now 
INFAMOUS YellowDog result: "Errors running Transaction Set! Please 
correct this manually." Happens for all types of install (base, home 
office, custom, etc)

I have no idea if this is due to the normal set of YDL install 
stupidities involving this message, or of there is something special 
about the brand new ibooks that causes problems.

OK, now that i have that rant outta my system, I think the consensus 
has been in the past that I an running out of drive space. Since I'm 
trying to install on a 5Gig partition, I know that's not the issue, 
but I have read in the archives that the installer may not be smart 
enough to install on the correct partition. How do I make sure of 
this? In mount points I have set the 5Gig partition as /, but it is 
the -last- partition on the disk. How can I make sure the installer 
really is trying to install there and not my swap partition, or one 
of the even smaller Mac partitions scattered around? (yes I'm keeping 
OSX).

I haven't installed YDL in forever, what is the magic key combo on 
the ibook that will drop me into the installer logging shell where I 
can see what's happening? And how to check in the safe-text installer 
that YDL is really trying to install on /? Any help from our 
illustrious YDL workers?



Stefan Jeglinski