Cannot Continue Installation Update4...

[Chad Zoellner]

On 8/17/02 11:01 AM, "yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com"
<yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:

> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:36:09 -0700
> Subject: Cannot Continue Installation Update3...
> From: Chad Zoellner <chadz@tt123.com>
> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> 
> On 8/16/02 11:01 AM, "yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com"
> <yellowdog-newbie-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 11:46:38 -0700
>> Subject: Cannot Continue Installation Update2...
>> From: Chad Zoellner <chadz@tt123.com>
>> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>> 
>>>> Message: 5
>>>> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 00:24:47 -0700
>>>> Subject: Cannot continue installation...
>>>> From: Chad Zoellner <chadz@tt123.com>
>>>> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>>>> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>>>> 
>>>> G3 400 AGP DVD No OS just trying to load YDL the installer boots fine from
>>>> the CD into a text interface/no graphic. After selecting the keyboard type
>>>> it asks to specify the CD-Rom "LOCAL cd/dvd", since this is what I have,
>>>> "OK" it then says it is unable to mount it, though the drive does spin up
>>>> for a split second.
>>>> 
>>>> So far I have tried the workarounds prev. posted -- hdc=ide-scsi and vice
>>>> versa. The first will get it past the cd check but it tells me I have more
>>>> than one cd drive and if it fails to mount to place the disk into the
>>> other
>>>> drive.  I have only one drive. And it always fails. I am stuck. I have
>>> tried
>>>> to work through the custom install but since I am still learning all this
>>> I
>>>> keep mangling the mount points.
>>>> 
>>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:02:52 -0700
>>> Subject: Cannot Install Cont...
>>> From: Chad Zoellner <chadz@tt123.com>
>>> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>>> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>>> 
>>> Update, 
>>> Tried pulling every other card out of the machine on the chance that my scsi
>>> card or my video capture card was causing the prob still cannot mount the cd
>>> when checking  multimedia.
>>> 
>>> Also hooked every open connection with spare hard drives in case it was
>>> thinking that an open slot in the chain was a cd drive but still could not
>>> mount the cd during the install process.
>>> 
>>> Again any help would be appreciated, I am running out of options here,
>>> 
>>> The next thing I am going to try is to swap out the DVD drive with a
>>> standard Cd-Rom. I figure if that works and I can get installed I can
>>> redirect the path to the drive as others have done.
>>> 
>>> -chadz
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Update part 2
>> 
>> Unhooked everything except the video card, one hard drive,  and the dvd
>> drive. Tried the 2.3 installer again and had the same issue... " you have
>> more than one cd/dvd drive installed"..."unable to mount the drive".
>> 
>> Swapped the DVD drive for a standard CD-Rom and had the same issue.
>> 
>> Hooked up both the DVD and the CD-Rom.. Had the same issue even swapping the
>> disk back and forth between drives during the installation.
>> 
>> I am now officially out of ideas, nothing anywhere is addressing this issue
>> on any FAQ or mailing list.
>> 
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>> 
>> - Chadz
>> 
> 
> Update 3
> 
> Talked with a Past Unix person who offered the suggestion that I check to
> make sure that the HD and the CD/DVD are both on their own IDE line and that
> they are both set to master and not cable select or slave. Double checked
> and tested again with the same results. Just to cover the bases I also set
> each to cable select at the same time and individually and tested with the
> same result.
> 
> Again any help would be appreciated.
> 
> -chadz
> 
Update 4

For the forth time pulled the ISO's for YDL 2.3 and YDL 2.2 ran them both
each booted fine but again could not find the CD/DVD to mount and could not
continue the installer. Swapped out the DVD for a generic CD-Rom same
result. I am beginning to think that either my G4 is fried though it will
install OSX just fine from a disc or the installers for YDL cannot install
on my G4.

Again any help would be appreciated

-chadz