Trying to Install YDL on G3 Beige

[Rick Thomas]

I have YDL 3.0.1 running just fine on a couple of beige G3s 
(mini-tower).  I installed them from CDs.

You are using BootX as your boot-loader, right?

Email me with details of your configuration and a description of 
the symptoms if you continue to have problems.

Rick

On Wednesday, April 7, 2004, at 08:41 PM, Lola Lee wrote:

> I'm trying to install Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 on my G3 desktop 
> machine.  The problem is when I select the local CDROM as the 
> installation method, I get "The Yellow Dog Linux CD was not found 
> in any of your cdrom drives. Please insert the YDL cd and click OK 
> to retry".
>
> Backing up a bit, I had an 160GB hard drive installed, made it the 
> master drive.  The original drive is now the slave drive, as is 
> the CD ROM drive.  The newer drive is partitioned into 2 parts, 
> the larger part being reserved for YDL.  I have OS 9 installed.  
> It is hooked up to the wireless router (this is probably important 
> as a way to solve this problem).
>
> Following the "A Companion to Installing YDL 3.0", right now I'm 
> on page 4, step 12 for the old world rom systems.  While mousing 
> through the screen options, I noticed that in addition to the 
> local cdrom, there's three options - ftp, nfs image, and http.  If 
> I were to put select one of these options, say, ftp, what would go 
> into the line for ftp site name and yellow dog directory?
>
> I would prefer to install off the cd rom, if possible, because I 
> found that it took a long time just to create these cds.  So, what 
> could be the reasons for the installer not recognizing the cd rom 
> (I watched the lines of text that scrolled up when I went into 
> Linux via BootX and it definitely did read in information about 
> the cd drive)? And how to fix this?  Thanks for your help!
>
> Lola
>
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