install always fails

[FW Owen]

Hi,

I've been trying to install 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 ever since they 
were released.  I've never had the 3.0.x installer run to 
completion.  The installer always crashes, both in text and 
X.  Sometimes it crashes at partitioning, and sometimes mid 
way through package instalation. 

My system is a s900 with 1000 MB memory and 400 MHz G3.  
There is no scsi chain.  I have an ide adapter (ata-66) 
with two large ide hard drives and a ide cdrw.

The video card and a usb card are in the two upper pci slots 
as they will not be recognized by linux in any of  the four 
lower pci slots.  The ide card is in the 3rd slot and works 
well.

I run Yellow Dog 2.3 and boot with bootx from a small 
MacOS-8.6 partition.

YD-2.3 was and is no problem to install.  But the latest 
versions of MOL won't compile on 2.3 and I need to move on.

MOL is the main application that I run on this box.  I 
broadcast Mac-9.2.1 to our network with MOL running on a 
tightVNC server.

I can easily install Debian stable but the packages are way 
too old to suit me.

Is it possible to install 3.0.1 on a s900?  If so, what's 
the trick?
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Kindest regards,

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F. W. Owen
Owenlea Holsteins
9430 Spencer Road
Homerville, Ohio 44235
e-mail fwo@bright.net
home page http://www.bright.net/~fwo
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