Installing YDL 3.0 on a Mac G3

[Andrew]

On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 20:45, Jason Warm wrote:
> 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

You are right. MacOS 9 CD will boot on any Mac who can run MacOS9 but as
far as I know, only new worlds can boot the YellowDog CDs (holding C
key..)

> 
> 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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