Installing YDL 3.0 on a Mac G3

[Olaf Olson]

You DON'T have an old-world Mac. You can boot from a CD. You don't need 
to have a Mac OS installed. Maybe, since you were up to 10.2.8, you had 
a patch to your ROM, that is causing some funky things, but I don't 
think that's the problem.

You said that you formatted it. What exactly do you mean? If YDL is to 
be your only machine, what you should have started with is completely 
unallocated disk, with no OS anywhere and no formatting. If you 
formatted the disk, in preparation for installing any OS, formatted as 
hds, hds+, or even Linux, that may be the source of your problem, 
nowhere to put YDL. If you have Mac OS CDs (OS 8.5, 9, 10), I think 
you'll need to erase the disk and leave it blank - unformatted and try 
again to load YDL.

Worked fine for my G3 350, 512mb machine. I know it's working, I'm 
writing this e-mail on it.

Olaf

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
>