Weird trouble installing YDL 3.0 on a 3400c

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

Yes, ydl's default config files now comment out the lines relating to ADB
keycodes; this can be fixed after install. If you try various keys, you may
be able to figure out how to switch to a different virtual terminal, so you
can further examine why it doesn't see the CD.

> From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 18:47:53 -0500
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Weird trouble installing YDL 3.0 on a 3400c
> 
> 
> I've been trying to install 3.0 on a 3400c with no luck at all.   I've
> set up a small MacOS 9 partition with BootX and the appropriate kernel
> and ramdisk, and I'm able to get the kernel to boot.   The text
> installer comes up and asks me what language to use, and  I pick
> english.   Then it asks me what kind of keyboard I have, and I pick
> "us".   It then pops up the screen about where to install from, but my
> key mappings are completely hosed at this point - tab and return do
> nothing at all.
> 
> Through trial and error I've found that 'r' is tab and the caps lock
> key (no kidding! :') is return, so I've been able to tell it to install
> off the CD-ROM.   Unfortunately, it then tells me that the YDL CD-ROM
> wasn't found.   This is puzzling, because the kernel boot messages
> indicated that it'd successfully probed the CD-ROM, and I do in fact
> have a YDL CD-ROM in the drive.
> 
> Has anybody else seen anything like this?   Has anybody gotten a 3400c
> installation of 3.0 to work?
> 
>