[ydl-gen] Won't Boot YDL with Power Mac G5 1.6 GHz machine

[Keith]

 Hi, I have done all the hash checksums and all the checksums are correct.

> Keith, did you remember to partition your internal drive so that it is
> formatted for Linux? 

 Well I can't partition it for ext2/3/4 unless I can boot up the DVD. On a Intel machine I could use partition magic,
but what do I use for a PPC running Mac OS X? Do I have to only have a linux partition on the PPC or can OS X & YDL co-exists?
This is my 1st attempt to install on PPC after many Intel installs of Linux so a *Good* web page would be appreciated.

TIA.
 

-- 
Best Regards, Keith 
http://home.comcast.net/~kilowattradio/

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Derick Centeno" <dcenteno at ydl.net>
> To: yellowdog-general at lists.fixstars.com
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:11:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] Won't Boot YDL with Power Mac G5 1.6 GHz machine
> 
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:37:52 -0700
> Keith <kilowattradio at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm having a problem booting any Yellow Dog Linux for PPC with my
> > Power Mac PPC w 1.6 GHz processor. If I put in a Mac Disk and hold
> > down the C on the keyboard Mac OS X PPC disks boots fine. If I put
> in
> > any YDL DVD in the drive the YDL PPC DVD will not boot and the
> > machine Boots Mac OS X Tiger from the HDD.
> > I have also burned the YDL DVD at slowest speeds and on different
> DVD
> > burners with the same result.
> >
> >  Anyone know what I should check or do to get YDL PPC DVD to boot?
> > -- 
> > Best Regards, Keith
> > http://home.comcast.net/~kilowattradio/
> >
> 
> Keith, did you remember to partition your internal drive so that it is
> formatted for Linux?  Also did you bother to test whether the SHA1SUM
> for the .iso image of YDL 6.2 you downloaded matches the official
> SHA1SUM value before you burned the DVD?
> 
> If you did not do this test and/or the SHA1SUM value do not match then
> the .iso image of YDL you burned onto your DVD is incomplete and will
> not have all the information it needs to properly install YDL onto
> your
> system.
> 
> Please note it is not the speed of the burn that matters; but whether
> the SHA1SUM values match.
> 
> In downloading the .iso it is best and most efficient to have DSL or
> faster internet connections.  If your DSL speed is low the download of
> the YDL .iso will take hours.  However, if you only have dial-up
> speeds
> (56K modem or slower) the full download of YDL will require a week or
> longer with one phone line dedicated to doing nothing but that
> download
> without any disconnnects; of course any disturbance on such a line
> means starting from scratch all over again.
> 
> All the best...
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