3.0 install w no CD?

Tim Seufert yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun Sep 14 15:09:01 2003


On Sunday, September 14, 2003, at 08:59 AM, Andrew Stout wrote:

> Thanks for your reply!  A few minutes after posting, I found the key 
> combo for booting off SCSI (cmd-opt-shift-delete)...guess I should 
> learn to Google first.  Anyway, last night I wiped the drive and 
> repartitioned with a 2Gig partition for MacOS and the rest 
> unallocated, ready for YDL.  But then it got late and I had to go to 
> bed.  =)
>
> Soon I hope to move along on the install, but it's something I have to 
> do in spare moments between mountains of homework (I'm a grad 
> student).  My next big concern is, how do I let the installer know 
> where to find the YDL CD?  Any hints?

It will probably find it automatically.  I've installed YDL 3.0 on a 
PowerBook 2400 using an external SCSI CD-ROM (because the 2400 has no 
internal drive), and so far as I remember the installer automatically 
figured out what device the CD was.