[ydl-gen] Installation

[Dale Swanson]

Luix Gaztañaga,

I reviewed the installation procedures and successfully installed YDL 5 on a spare Macintosh G4 tower with 1GB of RAM and a 60 GB hard drive. The GUI installation worked fine, and it booted into the Linux GUI after installation.

It may be that your system hardware is not up to the requirements of the Installation. According to "A Guide to Installing YELLOW DOG LINUX 5.0.2 for Apple PowerPC" [<ydl5.0.2_apple_guide.pdf>], the text installer "is used with systems whose graphics cards or monitors are not readily supported or systems with less than 200MB RAM." This may limit your GUI options after installation as well. One alternative would be to try a YDL Linux 4 release, though it may be less secure and robust.

If your hardware choices are limited Linux may still be a viable option, but it does require time and effort to perform usefully.  Even so, I have found the challenge worthwhile.

Regards,
Dale


On Nov 6, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Luix Gaztañaga wrote:

> The thing is that I have an old imac and before throwing to the trash I would like to run any  Linux distro in a rather easy way ( without using terminal). Is that possible without  getting frustrated?.I have tried, kubuntu 10.10, xubuntu 10.10, debian 5.0,,ubuntu 8.04,,ubuntu 6.10 . I have a similar situation to Yellow Dog with Debian but I can't reach the desktop. Linux will be free software but it is not user friendly.
> 
> 2010/11/7 . <ddxxlll at gmail.com>
> Not on a POWERPC based cpu.
> Powerpc arcetecture is only used by older macs.
> Any x86 or x64 based distro will be easier.
> 
> Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and all other pre-compiled linux is easir.
> Gentoo you compile it yourself, and its a 11/10 on how hard it is to install.
> You have to script a compiler to compile the kernal then compiles all the sources onto it. Takes 3 days man.
> 
> Lol means laugh out loud.
> Get a x86 or x64 computer (all new macs and windows)
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Luix Gaztañaga <luixgaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is Lol?. Is there a distro easy to install without being a geek? I would like an installation without being a nightmare.Today I have spent  the whole day  installing the  bloody Yellow Dog  without success.
> 
> 2010/11/7 . <ddxxlll at gmail.com>
> 
> Lol no
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Luix Gaztañaga <luixgaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like a distro that I can see the desktop properly wihout configuring after installing.Is gentoo like that?
> 
> 2010/11/6 . <ddxxlll at gmail.com>
> 
> Install gentoo
> 
> On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Luix Gaztañaga <luixgaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have installed 5.0.2 in my imac g3 but when I boot I have a black screen with a login . I don't have any idea to solve this situation . What do I have to do? Any help will be welcomed.
> Regards
> 
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