PPC 5400 instalation

[Sam Chenkin]

bizzare!
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 10:15  AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> Sam Chenkin wrote:
>>
>> Hey. I am attempting to install yellow dog linux 3.0 onto a powerpc
>> 5400 (the beige ones with built in screens).
>>
>> I have so far managed to get the boot loader to work and the
>> instalation to begin (in text mode). I have no problems until i am
>> asked where the yellowdog linux disk is.
>>
>> The program does not recognize my cdrom. When yellow dog is booting
>> however, i see a line recognizing the type and make of my cdrom drive.
>>
>> I think the problem is that the cdrom drive is scsi while the HD is 
>> IDE
>
> I had similar problems on a 6500. The internal CD-ROM drive would not
> read CDs reliably unless I burned them using yellow blanks (look at the
> writing surface, some are yellow, some are blue) and recorded at speed
> 1.
>
> Doing it that way, and it worked fine,
>
> Geoff.
> -- 
> Geoffrey S. Mendelson gsm@mendelson.com 972-54-608-069
> Do sysadmins count networked sheep?
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