HELP!-Installation problems on multiple 6500s

[Bill]

I had similar problems installing YDL 2.2 on a 6400/200 with 88MB of RAM and
a 4 GB hard drive. I installed a 20GB drive thinking it might be related to
drive space, but got the same errors (the same ones that you are reporting).
I finally got YDL 2.2 to install on this machine by changing the default
kernel installation option to the other choice that is available from the
BootX  menu at startup. I can't remember what the actual option(s) was, as
I'm at work and am not near the machine. After changing the option for which
kernel is installed, YDL installed on the 6400 without a hitch. The same
solution might work for you too, unless the BootX menu in YDL 2.3 is
different and doesn't offer this option.

Hope this helps.
-- 
Bill Dhalle
SUBLEVEL 3 Design Works
130 1st Street, #2
Troy, NY 12180
phone: 518.272.7242
fax: 518.266.9231
email: design@sublevel3.com
website: http://www.sublevel3.com


> Message: 6
> From: "Miyasato, Kris" <Kris.Miyasato@pepperdine.edu>
> To: "'yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com'"
> <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Subject: HELP!-Installation problems on multiple 6500s
> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:33:55 -0700
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
> I am trying to install YDL 2.3 on a Powermac 6500 with 96mb ram and a 4.1gb
> harddrive. Every time I have tried to install using either the text based
> ramdisk or the graphical install tool, the install gets past the point where
> it checks for dependencies and starts to write when it kernel panics and
> dumps to the screen ending with -- Aiee Kernel Panic.
> 
> I have initialized the drive per the manual and have done this several
> times. I made sure to follow the instructions on creating the partitions on
> the same session as I run the install.
> 
> No luck, and I ran this on two different 6500s.
> 
> I have even tried installing 2.2 in hopes of a better result, same thing,
> with the exception that it actually says it is writing to disk and the
> computer freezes (it said something about transferrring ghost-fonts, this
> message stayed on screen for more than an hour with no drive or cdrom
> activity).
> 
> HELP!
> 
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