Installing YDL 3.0 on a Mac G3

[Jason Warm]

You have what is know as an "old-world" Mac.  So yes, you do need to =20
have SOME mac OS installed.  I know Apple offers I THINK OS 7.5 for =20
free from their website.  I don't know if it will work on your G3 and I =20=

am not sure you can use BootX (the needed boot program) under OS 7.5.  =20=

YDL has a great guide at =20
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/installation/ydl3.0_guide-=20
single.pdf.  Why they don't post this at HTML as well I don't know.  =20
But if you follow the instructions in there for Old World Mac you =20
should be good to go.

Jason

On Jun 14, 2004, at 9:07 PM, Jeffrey Mannion wrote:

> I got an old Mac G3 (350 mhz 256mb RAM) =A0that was running OS 10.2.8 =
, =20
> but I formatted it, trying to install Yellow Dog. I currently have NO =20=

> operating system on my machine. While attempting to install YDL, =20
> during the partitioning stage, I select auto partition, and it locks =20=

> and restarts saying I do not have a Mac bootstrap partition. I am =20
> unsure how to fix this problem, and if there even is a way to fix it. =20=

> I bought the mac used and have no discs for OS X, and I heard that it =20=

> was necessary to have a mac os on the machine to boot YDL?? I do not =20=

> want to run mac os, but if I have to install it into a small partition =
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> and dual boot the two I would accept that. If that is the only =20
> possibility, is there a cheap way to get an older mac os that would =20=

> allow me to boot a linux distro (preferably ydl)?? Thanks in advance =20=

> if you have any suggestions!!
>
> =A0
>
> -Jeff