ydl 3.0 fails install, "cannot open display"

[Norberto Quintanar]

install text

as a kernel argument, I have a 6500/250 and before I put powerful PCI
graphics card in it, anytime I tried to install YDL on it it would
choke up.  


--- blitzen <jas_john128@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> I've got a properly partitioned 10gig drive, the first being
> "unallocated" and the second being "Mac OS Standard" as described
> in the
> ydl install guide.
> 
> The machine is a Ppc 6400/200, the monitor is an App,le and tho' i
> don't
> have all the internal driver/hardware/other details at hand at the
> moment, stuff generally works well and doesn't choke at 1024x768 or
> when
> running multiple tasks.
> 
> So the Mac side works fine.  I've got YDL 3.0 on three CD's and
> have
> booted into #1 and moved the ramdisk, kernel images, etc. to their
> proper folders and saw my buddy Tux when i invoked the boot loader
> from
> Control Panel/BootX.
> 
> Checked that i was loading the boot image and the correct
> (only!) ramdisk and sent it off to install YDL.
> 
> It looked good for a while.  Ran the loader, started anaconda,
> probed
> for and found my video card, monitor, mouse, etc, and started the X
> server successfully.  Then this:
> 
> (mini-wm:60): GtK-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 542, in ?
>     from splashscreen import SplashScreenShow
>   File "/usr/lib/anaconda/splashscreen.py", line 20, in ?
>      import gtk
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/_init_.py",
> line
> 43, in ?
>      from _gtk import *
> 
> RunTimeError: could not open display.
> Install exited abnormally
> 
> 
> So my question is, WTF?  Basically i'm surprised to see X and
> python and
> gtk even getting involved at this stage of an installation, but
> there it
> is.  Can anyone offer any advice or ask questions that would lead
> to gmy
> etting a clean install over here?  Thanx,
> 
> jas
> 
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