Installing YDL 3.0 on a Mac G3

[Jason Warm]

I don't think so, if I remember right you can boot from CD on an old 
world.  Yeah you can, just tried booting from a 9 CD on my Performa 
5215.

Jason

On Jun 14, 2004, at 8:40 PM, Andrew wrote:

>
> 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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