Installing YDL 3.0 on a Mac G3

[Andrew]

heh.. sorry to break your fun but I am wondering how he got to
partitioning stage, with NO operating system, if his Mac is a old-world.
Im confused. He must use a new-world to boot from the CDs, right? 

Jeffrey, check out this page. section 9 seam to be the most appropriate
in your case..
<http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/questions.shtml>

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 18:38, Jason Warm wrote:
> You have what is know as an "old-world" Mac.  So yes, you do need to  
> have SOME mac OS installed.  I know Apple offers I THINK OS 7.5 for  
> free from their website.  I don't know if it will work on your G3 and I  
> am not sure you can use BootX (the needed boot program) under OS 7.5.   
> YDL has a great guide at  
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/installation/ydl3.0_guide- 
> single.pdf.  Why they don't post this at HTML as well I don't know.   
> But if you follow the instructions in there for Old World Mac you  
> 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)  that was running OS 10.2.8 ,  
> > but I formatted it, trying to install Yellow Dog. I currently have NO  
> > operating system on my machine. While attempting to install YDL,  
> > during the partitioning stage, I select auto partition, and it locks  
> > and restarts saying I do not have a Mac bootstrap partition. I am  
> > unsure how to fix this problem, and if there even is a way to fix it.  
> > I bought the mac used and have no discs for OS X, and I heard that it  
> > was necessary to have a mac os on the machine to boot YDL?? I do not  
> > want to run mac os, but if I have to install it into a small partition  
> > and dual boot the two I would accept that. If that is the only  
> > possibility, is there a cheap way to get an older mac os that would  
> > allow me to boot a linux distro (preferably ydl)?? Thanks in advance  
> > if you have any suggestions!!
> >
> >  
> >
> > -Jeff
> 
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