Trying to Install YDL on G3 Beige

[Lola Lee]

At 9:46 PM -0500 4/7/04, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
>>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".
>
>Well, that's odd. You know, of course, that an Old World Mac (such 
>as yours) is unable to boot directly from the CD-ROM (you probably 
>do know that if you read the "Companion to Installation," but it 
>bears repeating).


Okay, I'll have to take another look at this.  This in regards to 
booting into Linux from the cd when starting up the Mac?  I know you 
can boot off the CD in OS 9 by holding down "C", of course.  Not what 
I'm trying to do in this case; I'm trying to install Linux into the 
hd.

>>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).
>
>The Mac OS *must* be installed within a single partition within the 
>first 8 GB of the boot drive. Is this how you have it set up?


Right.  I don't remember how the Drive Utility labels the partitions, 
but I do remember that I specified 2 partitions, the bottom one being 
30GB and the top one the rest of the HD.  I installed OS 9 into the 
bottom partition.  Maybe the partition should actually be the other 
way around?  And are you saying that partition 1 must be exactly 8GB?


>I am not sure where you see these options -- are you looking at the 
>"BootX" application/Control Panel?
>
>According to the "Companion...," you must install a few items by 
>hand in your Mac OS 9 System Folder: the BootX App, a folder called 
>"Linux Kernels" (with some items inside it), and a file called 
>"ramdisk.image.gz." Do you have all those set up *exactly* as 
>described in the documentation?


Right.  I'd been following the instructions step by step.  What I'm 
seeing on the screen now is text-only instructions, with the 
background being grey and red boxes surrounding "OK", "Back", and 
navigation is by the tab or arrows.  I was expecting to see an GUI 
interface; the companion doesn't have a screenshot of what I'm 
supposed to be seeing at this step (12) so I don't have any idea of 
what I'm supposed to be seeing here. I would have taken a picture of 
this but forgot to do so and now I'm here at work.  I'll see if I can 
get my husband to take a picture of the screen so you can see what 
I'm talking about.

>You're in luck (sort of)! Yellow Dog Linux can *only* be installed 
>off the CD-ROM. I don't know where you found the other options.


Yes, see above.  Have no idea where this is coming from. 

BTW, thanks for the warm welcome!


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