Installing YDL 3.0 on a Mac G3

[mascarasnake]

Hey Jeff,

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. 

Here I have to ask, How did you format it? On a PPC, anaconda (the YDL 
installer) will balk at anything but unallocated space. This has to be 
done to the disk unmounted. If it's formatted as *anything*, The 
installer will crash. You may be able to find a bootable disk image here:
	<http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html#system>
that will allow you to format your HDD as unallocated.


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'm making a wild assumption in that this is a Desktop machine and a B&W 
G3. Check out:
	<http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/Installing+YDL/BootX%2C+Yaboot+and+the+OF>


There are three partitions you will need.
	An Apple_Bootstrap
	a swap
	a / (root)
These are not negotiable and need to be in the order above (at least the 
bootstrap needs to be first - very important)

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
> 
My old 7500 is running headless (my monitor's tube died and I haven't 
had a chance to grab a new one) so I can't confirm, but, you may be able 
to get a bootable disk from that apple link above, reformat the drive as 
unallocated and get things going from there. If not, you might want to 
give a "live" CD like knoppix a try. From there use pdisk to delete all 
the partitions on on the drive and then boot up from the YDL Installer.

g'luck

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