Old World PMac 5500 install

[David Wadson]

i've found installing from the CDs to be next to impossible with most=20
of the Old World Macs I've been working with - 8500, 7200, 7500, 7100,=20=

8100 (yes, a couple of NuBus one). I've found a 4400 and a 7300 to be=20
easier to install. I don't know whether it's the older CD drives having=20=

trouble with the discs, the fact that all I can find now are 700MB CDs=20=

and not the old 640MB ones, but the CD installs have been really=20
troublesome. I've given up on it and instead have set up an NFS share=20
on another computer and do a network install instead.

That said, it still hasn't been easy. Still often have kernel panics=20
and crashes in various stages with the install. TechTool Pro has helped=20=

me find some flakey memory modules. A flakey network cable caused=20
headaches and read errors while trying to install certain packages. And=20=

finally, SCSI issues with the older hard drives has caused headaches as=20=

well - Double DMA errors and what not. Almost every machine has been a=20=

challenge to get a working install on it.

If you can get a newer machine running even temporarily, share the=20
install discs via NFS - it's much easier than fighting with the CDs.

Dave


On Saturday, August 14, 2004, at 04:08  PM, mascarasnake wrote:

> Hey Rafael Sant=B4Anna Meyer -
>
> I'll drop in my pennies.
>
> My first thought is that your disk is corrupted. Somewhere in the=20
> download/burn process, something went awry.
>
> My second is that the partition map is wrong. Make sure that your=20
> first partition (for YDL) is "unallocated".
>
> To really get some help, toss out some more info, like:
> 	- How did you download and burn the ISOs?
> 	- How is your disk partitioned?
> 	- What Mac OS are you running?
> 	- How did you download and burn the ISOs?
> 	- What have you tried, thus far, to solve this
>
> g'luck
>
> Rafael Sant=B4Anna Meyer wrote:
>
>> I need some urgent Help!
>> I have an old Power Mac 5500/250 with an Encore 8139D ethernet board
>> (which Yellow dog don't recognize at install process) spiked at my
>> single pci slot.
>> And I am having some instalation problems.  The installation process
>> goes fine till the package install. Simplely I can't install the
>> Yellow Dog at my machine because the system refuses to install the
>> first package. I let the computer turned on for more than 12 hours =
and
>> no signal of first package install.
>> BTW the mouse still works and cd works. My hd is a Samsung 40 gb-7200
>> rpm HD. I had chose to do the personal use install.
>> Can you give some suggestion about I need do?
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