yellowdog-general digest, Vol 1 #902 - 10 msgs

[Oscar G. Maldonado]

        Message: 7
        From: "Miguel A. Mota Jr." <Chaos325@Hotmail.com>
        To: <yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
        Subject: Re: Anaconda Error
        Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 18:14:28 -0400
        Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
        
        Dear Yellow Dog Linux Mailing List,
        
        >I was getting a simular error when trying to install YellowDog
        while I had
        >a UNIX native File system. I Re-Partitioned the drive using the
        MacOSX CD.
        >I used a standard MacOS Primary. Tried the reinstall and all
        went well.
        
            Hi all, I two days new to the mailing list and the quest to
        put Linux on my G3 (new to Macs as well).  Anyhow I just tried
        yesterday to install Yellow Dog Linux 2.2 on my G3 (300MHz,
        CD-ROM, and 64MB RAM), which was given to me bare and I up-ed to
        256MB Ram & 10GB HDD, but during installation at partitioning it
        gives me error about MS-DOS partitions.  
        
First of all... What kind of G3 do you have ? The beige one, or the B&W
one ?

        I fdisked the drive before hand (on another PC) and removed all
        partitions because it was originally windows and I want it only
        y.d. Linux on it (since I don't have a copy of OS/curiosity) for
        my cluster.  I explain what happened and what I was trying to do
        to the head tech at my high school, and he told me that it has
        to with the boot rom only being able to boot Mac OS (and
        something about track 0).  
        
This only happen with the "old world macs" which are all the beige
series, after that, the imacs and the B&W G3 became the "new world macs"
and yes, if you have an old world mac you must install at least the
minimal system software so you can install bootX (the boot loader for
MacOS)  
        He said I'd have to install a copy of Mac OS first and then
        Linux, which Mac OS will then give me the multi-boot option. Not
        sure if this is true (I've only used Macs for a year, strictly
        in my Web-based Graphic Design class), but I guess reading above
        it could be?  Can anyone confirm/reject this and advise me? 
        Thanks to all for your time.
        




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