installing on an 'oldworld' (8500)

[B. Charles Reynolds]

On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 02:59 PM, fx x wrote:

> Thanks a lot Olaf, now I see a little clearer. Here are some 
> precisions.
> I format my HD a month ago with 2 volumes, both HFS+.

That's the ticket, right there. As I remember when installing on my 
Performa 6400, the YDL partition had to either be left as unformatted 
space or it had to be HFS (not + ). Try removing the format for vol-B 
re-install YDL, allowing YDL to do the ext2 partitioning in the - now 
empty - space.

>     vol A(os9)
>     vol B(YDL iso 2.3/BootX_installer)
> I have choosed the ramdisk-x11.image.gz (but it is in vol.A:system 
> folder: ) and the ramdisk size is 16384.
> Still unable to mount the cd...
>
> May the funk B with U
>
>
>> From: Neumann.O
>> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>> Subject: Re: installing on an 'oldworld' (8500)
>> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 22:15:55 +0100 (CET)
>>
>> Hi,
>> my name is olaf.
>> I have a PPC 7500 und I have installed Yellow Dog Linux 2.3 with YDL.
>> So far, what I have reading your Mail, I think, that I know what is
>> going wrong.
>> Did you format your HD the write format?
>> Have you choosed the  ramdisk-x11.image.gz by using BootX?
>> If you have not selected the RAMDisk, the CD can not be mounted under
>> Linux for Installation.
>> I hope, that I helped you.
>> Sincerly from Germany
>> Olaf Neumann
>>
>> fx x schrieb:
>> > I got an "oldworld" ppc 8500/180mhz/160, with mac Os 9.0
>> > on it.
>> >
>> > I saw that YDL would work on it with BootX. I downloaded
>> > the soft and YDL
>> > 2.3 iso file.
>> >
>> > BootX seems to work properly, but the YDL installer does
>> > not recognise my
>> > CD. Is it because my CD player and hard disk are SCSI, or
>> > is it beause of
>> > the YDL 2.3iso file (burned on my Imac)? The installer
>> > was unable to mount
>> > the CD/DVD.
>> >
>> > I hope you could help me, I already tried to put a
>> > Mandrake but never saw
>> > the installer. I hope it will be easier with YDL.
>> >
>> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
>
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