Installing YDL 3.0 on a Mac G3

[R. Hirschfeld]

> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:35:55 +0200
> From: Geert Janssens <geert.janssens3@pandora.be>
> 
> It was rather late last night as I wrote this e-mail. This morning I 
> rechecked, and I can't boot (anymore?) from the YDL CDs.
> 
> I'm still confused myself, because I have such a vivid memory of doing 
> so before. I remember I needed to use CD-R's with 650Mb capacity in 
> stead of 700Mb, as apparently, the CD drives weren't capable of booting 
> from a 700Mb capacity CD-R. (Got this info from this mailing list, or 
> the Linux PPC's).

Did you ever use LinuxPPC?  If so, perhaps you're thinking of its
install CD, which included a minimal MacOS system so that you could
boot from it on an Old World machine.  I remember being puzzled that I
couldn't boot from CD when I switched from LinuxPPC to YDL.

Ray