PPC 5400 instalation

[Sam Chenkin]

Doah, sorry for spliting up the message, ok i'll try that, maby the CD 
drive is so old it can't handle any kind of error?

Sam
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.
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> Do sysadmins count networked sheep?
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