[ydl-gen] YD4.1 install hang up

[Steven Didier]

Thanks for the reminder Derrick, I had not checked the md5 and after doing
so at your suggestion, lo and behold! The sums do not match. Back to
download again.
-- 
Steven Didier



> From: Derick Centeno <aguilarojo at verizon.net>
> Reply-To: Discussion List for General Yellow Dog Linux User Topics
> <yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:45:04 -0500
> To: YDL Gen <yellowdog-general at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] YD4.1 install hang up
> 
> Hi Steve:
> 
> Your difficulty puzzles me as I've been able to use the iso's fine on
> my external fw drive or anywhere else I choose to plant YDL 4.1.
> 
> Questions:
> Before you burned the iso's did you check the md5 of each iso you
> downloaded?
> Which md5 test did you use Apple's (which is embedded within Disk
> Utility and useless for our purposes) or did you use md5 which is
> available within Darwin via the Terminal?
> 
> Suggestion: Use the version of md5 available within Darwin via the
> Terminal.
> Of course, I'm sure that you'll check whatever md5 reports against what
> TSS says the md5 should be for each iso, and after each iso exactly
> matches then you burn the iso onto the CDs.  I merely mention this in
> passing as the most obvious difficulty is downloading all the data in
> every iso TSS intended that you, I and everyone else, receive.  It  is
> rather easy to overlook as we have come to expect that every thing just
> function.  This might not be the cause of your problem.  However,
> unless it is eliminated as a contributing factor moving towards
> considering other possibilities could be like repairing other aspects
> of one's living room only to highlight the hump underneath one's carpet
> in the center.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:39 AM, Steven Didier wrote:
> 
>> I¹ve anxiously awaited the release of the promised easy install to an
>> external firewire drive. Downloaded the four iso¹s and what do you
>> know, the installer will not recognize my firewire drive. I¹ve
>> formatted the drive with the OSX installation disk utility as free
>> space, no go!
>>  I¹m not a total newbie but at this point I¹m at a loss as to what to
>> do next. Does anyone have a suggestion?
>>  Thanks
>>  --
>>  Steven Didier
>> 
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