need help installing on a MAC G3 Blue&White

[Norberto Quintanar]

Try re-reading these posts

http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-January/011393.html
http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-January/011394.html
Then try reading the installation manual at:

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/installation/ydl3.0_guide-single.pdf

Good luck!

--- Loerop & De Ruijter <zmlrdr@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Still got problems installing yellowdog linux on Blue & White 300
> mhz mac G3
> 
> My system has a 6G harddisk, ATI 120 videocard and 64 mb internal
> memory.
> 
> First of all i have reset the factorysettings:
> 
> reset-nvram
> set-default
> reset-all
> 
> printenv and indeed factorysettings.
> 
> I've then taken the following steps:
> 
> 1) booted without harddisk, gives the (by now familiar) message
> 
> pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/mac-io@5/ata-3@20000/disk@0:2,yaboot.conf
> Unknown or corrupt filesystem
> Can't open configfile
> Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.10
> Enter help for some basic usage information
> boot:_
> 
> 
> 2) booted without keyboard and mouse, same problem.
> 3) booted without cd player, same problem.
> 
> Then attached my LiteOn burner to the mac in stead of the cdplayer.
> 
> After command: dir hd
> result: Initlabel-package failed
> can't OPEN the DIR device
> 
> 
> After command: dir hda
> result: can't open the DIR device
> 
> After command: dir cd (of dir cd:,\\)
> result: DISK-LABEL : read of block0 failed
> can't open de DIR device
> ok
> boot:_
> 
> 
> Booting in different configurations did not help me. The last two
> command 
> and systemresponse do not make sense at least
> not to me.... Please tell me what they mean and what i can do to
> read my 
> installation cd.
> 
> My harddrive has 1 partition lin ext2. Created with partitionmagic
> 7. Could 
> the disk having only 1 partition be a problem?
> 
> 
> Please have a look at http://www.xs4all.nl/~zmlrdr/ some
> screenshots...
> 
> 
> Thanx for any comments!
> 
> 
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--Norberto Quintanar 

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--Norberto Quintanar

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