Problems Installing YDL 3.0 on beige g3 tower

Pat Plummer yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon May 5 19:00:01 2003


On Monday, 5 May 03, Michael H. Martel wrote:

> --On Monday, April 21, 2003 7:59 AM -0600 wjmedley@ydl.net wrote:
>
>> I'm having a problem installing YDL 3.0 on my 2 beige G3s. The 
>> problem is
>> the same for both, the installer tells me it can't find the YDL 3.0 
>> cd in
>> the cdrom drive. On boot the kernel recognizes the cdrom and when the
>
> I've got the same problem.  2.3 installs fine, but 3.0 won't install.  
> My
> 3.0 CD's install fine on my iMacs.  Did you ever get a fix/work around 
> for
> this ?
>
> Thanks!

Unfortunately, a similar situation is occurring with the Apple Network 
Server (specifically, my ANS 700). It appears that the anaconda 
installer cannot create devices on the fly as it is supposed to. If I 
find out more, I will report back here.

Pat
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