A TOTAL newbie.

[Shawn Dunn]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:22:44 +0200
"l.biagiotti" <l.biagiotti@tiscali.it> wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I decided to subscribe the TerraSoft mailing list (thanks for the
> opportunity!) after having spent LOTS of hour trying to install YDL
> 2.2 on a 6100/60 PowerMac and, having roamed around the net in the
> search for solutions, tips, tricks and such.
> 
<snip>
> To cut a long story short:
> 
> I have a 6100/60 with a 4gig hd, 40mb of ram and a 40x Pioneer DR 706s
> "slot loading" cd drive and a G3/240 accellerator form Sonnet
> (actually disabled as I would love to just be able to install Linux at
> present; eventual incompatibility with this card I will investigate
> later).
> 
> I have been trying to boot with the (original) YFL 2.2 cd in vain;
> apparently the 6100 doesn-t recognize this cd as a valid bootable
> media...
> 
> I have been trying to use BootX but, after installing and rebooting
> the machine would just hang on a "type 10 error" caused by the BootX
> extension.(Also tried to use two other BootX installers coming from a
> YDL 2.3 cd and from a friend's YDL 2.2 cd just in case ... no way
> ...).
> 
Well, the biggest problem is, YDL doesn't technically support the NuBus
machines (of which the 6100 is the first of them), you either need to go
with MkLinux, or try the vmlinux+installer for YDL at
http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net, and BootX WILL NOT WORK with this
machine, it must be patched, you have to install the MkLinux booter for
the first few boots, available at ftp://ftp.mklinux.org.



					Hope this helps.

					--Shawn