I'm Stuck

[Arch and Cath]

Andrew,

Thank you very much.   I think that at least initially, I am just going to
use the ATA disk, ZIP and CDROM and see how I make out.  It has been a
couple of years since I worked with YDL2.3 and at 74, the neurons are dying.
I also have a 120GB Firewire drive on a USB/Firewire card on this system and
later may try to figure out how to use that.

Thanks again for your help.

Regards,

Arch

on 6/16/04 3:00 PM, Andrew at virgule88@videotron.ca wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 07:21, Arch and Cath wrote:
>> 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 $22.  We shall see!
>> 
>> Arch
>> 
> 
> You'll be fine with an ATA. Make sure you put the / partition on it as
> its the only one that really matter.... For your convenience (and for
> reference purpose), I will provide you with my /etc/fstab setup and
> partitioning scheme, at the end of this message. After anaconda does its
> stuffs, you will reboot and get another error, but this time you will be
> asked to 'enter root password for maintenance'. I used 'vi' to switch
> all 'sdb' for 'sba' into /etc/fstab, exit vi, exit 'maintenance mode'
> and an automatic reboot will happen et voila! YellowDog is fully
> operational.
> 
> Using 'vi' is kinda tricky.... Use the arrow keys to navigate, make the
> changes the usual way until you are satisfied then hit <ESC>. save
> changes by typing ':w!' and exit with ':q!' ***You MUST use the : and
> the ! symbols***
> 
> 
> --------
> [andrew@virgule rc.d]$ cat /etc/fstab
> /dev/hdc7    /         ext3     defaults       1 1
> none         dev/pts   evpts    gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> /dev/hdc8    /home     ext3     defaults       1 2
> none         /proc     proc     defaults       0 0
> none         /dev/shm  tmpfs    defaults       0 0
> /dev/sda6    /usr      ext3     defaults       1 2
> /dev/sda7    swap      swap     defaults       0 0
> /dev/cdrom   /mnt/cdrom      udf,iso9660 noauto,users,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/jaz     /mnt/jaz        auto    defaults,noauto,users,rw 0 0
> /dev/floppy  /mnt/floppy     auto    defaults,noauto,users,rw 0 0
> 
> --------
> /dev/hdc7 -> 1.0 GB
> /dev/hdc8 -> 2.0 GB
> /dev/sda6 -> 7.7 GB
> /dev/sda7 -> SWAP (640 MB)
> --------
> 
> You did good choosing a 10GB drive. Mine is only 4GB so I had to
> re-install everything several times before I finally got a setup that is
> fine for me. I would have put everything into the ATA and use the SCSI
> only for /home but 4GB is simply not enough room ;)
> 
> Good Luck!
> -Andrew
> 
>> 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.
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