YDL on an eMAC Firewire Drive

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

The HOWTO seems to have left out a step between 1 and 2: rescanning the
SCSI bus. At least I know you had to do that with 2.4 kernels; maybe you
don't have to anymore. You should verify step 1 with lsmod.

On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:00:11 -0800, Phillip Soltan wrote:

> I don't mind the 50 steps but I can't get past step 2.  I managed to  
> breakout of anaconda to a command line and tried loading the Firewire  
> modules (ieee1394, ohci1394, raw1394, sbp2).  When I do step 2 (cat  
> /proc/scsi/scsi) nothing is listed and the modules don't actually load.  
>   I have an eMac so I was wondering if I might have better luck using  
> the USB interface to connect to the external drive?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil
> 
> On Dec 19, 2004, at 12:36 PM, Bill Mueller wrote:
> 
>>
>> There is, but it gets ugly fast.  I'd also recommend parted over  
>> pdisk, it is
>> a little better supported.  Either way, stick with what you're  
>> comfortable with.
>>
>> I should have something in the next week or so that'll break the  
>> requirement
>> of a previous linux install.  Most likely a bootable CD that automates  
>> an image
>> install.  So it'll be only 3 or 4 steps instead of the current 50 (a  
>> little
>> more user friendly.)
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>>
>> Quoting Phillip Soltan <psoltan at adelphia.net>:
>>
>>> Hi Bill,
>>>
>>> I appreciate the link to the info about booting from a firewire drive.
>>> Unfortunately, it doesn't tell me how I'm supposed to run pdisk  
>>> without
>>> having Linux already installed.  Is there some way to break out of
>>> anaconda and run all the necessary programs from the bootable YDL-4.0
>>> CD?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Phillip Soltan
>>>
>>> On Dec 17, 2004, at 9:52 PM, Bill Mueller wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> drive.  Does anyone know of an "unofficial" way to get YDL to  
>>>>> install
>>>>> on a Firewire drive?  It seems like a ridiculous limitation to me
>>>>> since
>>>>> I bet most people don't want to mess with their Mac OS installation.
>>>>
>>>> Working on it. Until then:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_4.0/ipod.shtml
>>>>
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