A TOTAL newbie.

[Brad Lipinski]

Scratch what I said.  Debian does NOT support NuBus macs.


> 
> 
> 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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