Mac G3 reboots during installation

[Linc Fessenden]

Corey Mercer wrote:
> Well, I've tried switching hard drives, ram, pram
> batteries and I've tried removing unnecessary cards,
> but I still can't seem to get yellowdog to install on
> this g3. Should I just hold off until version 4? I
> can't imagine what else would cause this thing to
> reboot in the middle of an installation. It happens
> during the file copy at random moments. At one point
> it actually made it to the second cd and I thought I
> was home free until it rebooted during that one. The
> only other thing that comes to mind is that perhaps
> the system doesn't like ext3, but it's late and I'm
> tired and don't feel like fighting with it anymore
> today. I'll try changing the fs to ext2 tomorrow and
> see if that helps, but I am not even remotely
> optimistic.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> -cor-
> --- Corey Mercer <corwashere@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I was given a Mac G3 Blue and White Tower that had
>>os
>>9.2 on it. In several attempts to install YDL, the
>>mac
>>reboots and not always in the same spot during
>>installation. I have had this happen with PCs when
>>the
>>ram was bad, but swapping out the ram hasn't helped.
>>The only other thing that I can think of is to try a
>>different hard drive.
>>
>>Any ideas?

Here's one - sounds to me like you have a flakey cdrom drive.

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