Weird trouble installing YDL 3.0 on a 3400c

[Jean C. De Vour]

I had this exact problem on my 3400c. Try the 2.2 kernel for the first
boot (install). I eventually got it to see the CD this way.  I just wish
I could get rid of the Mac partition altogether.  How small did you get
yours down to? Mine's 350mb because I wasn't sure what to cut. =20
Once I got 3.0 installed I noticed how much faster it is than 2.3.=20
This web page has some really good info on the 3400 and linux. In
particular getting the NIC and the video to work properly.
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~enrique/linux/laptop.html

Good luck,

Jean DeVour

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Lemon [mailto:mellon@fugue.com]=20
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 4:48 PM
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=20
set up a small MacOS 9 partition with BootX and the appropriate kernel=20
and ramdisk, and I'm able to get the kernel to boot.   The text=20
installer comes up and asks me what language to use, and  I pick=20
english.   Then it asks me what kind of keyboard I have, and I pick=20
"us".   It then pops up the screen about where to install from, but my=20
key mappings are completely hosed at this point - tab and return do=20
nothing at all.

Through trial and error I've found that 'r' is tab and the caps lock=20
key (no kidding! :') is return, so I've been able to tell it to install=20
off the CD-ROM.   Unfortunately, it then tells me that the YDL CD-ROM=20
wasn't found.   This is puzzling, because the kernel boot messages=20
indicated that it'd successfully probed the CD-ROM, and I do in fact=20
have a YDL CD-ROM in the drive.

Has anybody else seen anything like this?   Has anybody gotten a 3400c=20
installation of 3.0 to work?

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