About to give up on YDL on PM 6500s part deux

Jared Pedroza yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:59:34 -0600


Sorry that this took so long to reply to, but yes, I have. It was 
giving me the same problems until I used the Kernel 2.2 on the BootX 
screen. If I tried to use the default it would crash every time.

Jared

On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 02:59  PM, Miyasato, Kris wrote:

> Thanks for all the helpful posts. I have tried each suggestion and 
> still
> cannot get YDL to install. It still crashes during the install 
> process, as
> files are being written to the hard drive.
>  It actually does this rather consistently on all 6500s I have tried 
> it on,
> using text and graphical install tools, installing with any package set
> including the base install, using larger boot partition sizes and also
> experimenting with changing sizes of all partitions.
>
> I am at a loss. I have used Redhat, Solaris x86, Slackware, and Suse
> distributions on PC and LinuxPPC and Mklinux on Macs, and I have never 
> had
> this much trouble installing linux.
>
> Has anyone successfully installed this on a PM6500?
>
> Kris A. Miyasato, MA
> Manager - Technology Systems
> Pepperdine University - GSEP
> kmiyasat@pepperdine.edu
>
>
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