Trying to Install YDL on G3 Beige

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

It sounds like you're trying to use the YDL 3.0.1 CDs with the
ramdisk.image.gz from YDL 2! Point BootX to the one in the "images" folder
on Install Disc 1. It'll be graphical and you won't be asked where you're
installing from.
-- 
"No gnu's is good gnu's."   --Gary Gnu, "The Great Space Coaster"


> From: Lola Lee <lola@his.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 20:41:53 -0400
> Subject: Trying to Install YDL on G3 Beige
> 
> 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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