installation of 2.3 on an iBook

[Beverly Molloy]

I bought the $30 version of the software and will receive it tomorrow. Can
anyone on this list at least offer me the hope that it will work when the
downloadable .iso file doesn't?

Thanks
--Michael

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[mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf
Of Beverly Molloy
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 3:23 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: installation of 2.3 on an iBook


I've got a 600 Mhz "snow" iBook that I'm trying to install 2.3 on. I
downloaded the iso from the website.

I have hit the "xxx.rpm could not install. Please fix manually" error, which
is immediately followed by the warning that package installation failed.

I searched the archives and saw a lot of people with this problem. The only
thing approaching a solution that I saw was to run through the configuration
until I partitioned the disk, then restart and continue the install, using
the clean partitions I had created in the previous install.

Unfortunately, this does not work for me.

I saw another thread in which the person talked about going to another
command prompt & running " /sbin/parted and used the mkfs sub-command to
regenerate the root filesystem", but I can't get to another prompt from the
installation program? I've installed linux many times on intel hardware, so
I know what he's talking about, but I don't know the iBook keyboard
combination to get to a terminal prompt.

Can someone please shed some light on this for me? Please?

Thanks
--Michael


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