I'm Stuck

[Arch and Cath]

The ZIP is SCSI and I have tried it both ways.    I give up!  I bought a
10GB ATA drive on ebay the other day for $22.  We shall see!

Arch


on 6/15/04 11:05 PM, Walt Pawley at walt@wump.org wrote:

> On 6/10/04 12:14 PM -0400, Arch and Cath wrote on I'm Stuck
> 
>> My computer is a Beige G3 w Version 3 motherboard ...
>> 
>> It seems to me that when I had 2.3 in a couple of years ago, I could use my
>> ZIP to bring stuff back and forth between linux and MacOS.
> 
> Arch,
> 
> Is the Zip a SCSI Zip or ATA? If it's SCSI, you might try stripping all the
> other SCSI stuff off the system and doing a hand selected, cut down,
> CLI-only YDL install to the Zip. This would give you a bit more tools to
> play with to solve the other problems, perhaps.
> 
> Alternatively, if the Zip is indeed a SCSI Zip, perhaps removing it before
> doing the YDL install to the SCSI hard disk would be of some value. I've
> seen rumors of two drive confusion - though I have to admit the only
> confusion I've seen is that if you put two drives on the installation
> requires you to "see" both drives for the partitioning activity even if you
> tell it you only want to install on one. At least, that's what it's done
> while installing on a 6100.