A TOTAL newbie.

[Brad Lipinski]

You also can investigate Debian.  I'm not 100% but I'm pretty sure they
support NuBus Macs.

> From: "l.biagiotti" <l.biagiotti@tiscali.it>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:22:44 +0200
> To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Subject: A TOTAL newbie.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> The result of the above is that I was quite confused before beginning my
> "quest" and that I am MORE than confused now ... there are so many infos out
> there, and so many places that try their best to be of help that I can't
> keep up with the whole. Furthermore, as I do not possess enough knowledge on
> the Unix/Linux matter, I really cannot filter correctly all the material I
> get to read.
> 
> 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 ...).
> 
> 'Been trying to use MKLinux and, eventually got to see the install program
> firmware bootup sequence but:
> 
> 1) Either the install sequence would stop with a kernel panic because the
> program was unable to find the cd-rom drive
> 
> 2) Either I would get the graphical RedHat installation sequence which would
> en up rebooting the machine after failing to find any livesystem and/or the
> cd drive (more of the same...).
> 
> 3) I even tried to copy the content of the whole YDL 2.2 cd on my hard drive
> to no avail. The RedHat installer would fail in finding any kernel Installer
> on the drive ...
> 
> I do not konw wether I'm missing anything or if I followed the right steps
> ... as I am using the kernel that was bundled with the MKLinux installer I
> do not even know if it is compatible with YDL 2.2 installer or not.
> 
> As I said before I'm starting to mess things up between MkLinux's kernel,
> the kernels that are present in the YDL cd, the kernels I found at the
> SourceForge site ... I start fearing that my cd -rom drive just will not be
> recognized under Linux and I don't know how (and if) there is any workaround
> for this problem ... in short I'm stuck without a clue. I've also been
> trying to post at the TuxPPC forum but so far I didn't get a single reply.
> Anybody's willing to shed a little light in the darkness?
> 
> Thanks in advance and sorry for being so long but I couldn't find a better
> way to put all the above in short.
> 
> Lorenzo
> 
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