6100 and 2.2

[Thomas Carlson]

Lorenzo,

Maybe the kernel that you used doesn't support your particular cdrom device.
Try the one I used, Etsushi Kato's MachKernel-YDL2.2-2.4.6pre3 is at:

ftp://ppc.linux.or.jp/pub/users/ekato/nubus-pmac/YDL2.2/

Follow the instructions that he provides there for setting up your lilo.conf
file.  Mine is a stock cdrom drive, too.  The real problems that I had with
the installation came later.  The 2.2 installer doesn't support
installations from a hard drive or zip disk so unless you can get the kernel
to support your particular cdrom device I think you're stuck.

Good luck,

Tom

> on 30-07-2002 17:33, Thomas Carlson at tcarls@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
>> Just started with this list this morning so I don't anything about your
>> installation woes.  Got most of my information from the linux ppc nubus
>> list.  First of all, my G3 upgrade is made by Newer.  Don't think the Sonnet
>> one works but I may be wrong.  Let me know where in the installation process
>> you are stuck and I will try to help you.
> 
> Hi Thomas and thanks for replying.
> 
> For the moment being I really do not care about the accelerator, I just
> disabled it in order not to run the risk of eventual incompatibilities. All
> I want now is to succeed in installing YDL on the machine, the time will
> come for eventual setups :-).
> 
> Anyway.
> After trying various methods I came to understand that the only booter that
> would work on the 6100 is MkLinux. I installed it and, had to discover by
> myself how to configure the lilo.conf file (well to tell you the truth I
> also had to discover by myself that I would have had to configure this
> file...).
> Then I had to struggle with various kernels I picked at the nubus.pmac site,
> until I got the right one and finally came to see the graphic YDL
> installation program.
> 
> Now my problem is that this installer tells me that it can't find any cd-rom
> drive in the machine (I have a stock Pioneer slot-loading drive).
> I already knew this one would come when I discovered that I wouldn't be able
> to boot from the YDL cd.
> 
> Now I'm trying to understand if:
> 
> a) There is a way to force the YDL installer under MkLinux to recognize the
> cd drive or,
> 
> b) If I can use my Iomega Zip 100 drive instead of the cd to install Linux
> (in this case what would I have to copy from the YDL cd?)
> 
> c) If there alternatively would be a way to start the installation by
> copying the entire content of the YDL cd on my HFS+ partition (which is the
> only one I can use presently. I even tried to d/l MountX but I really do not
> understand how to use the thing).
> 
> So, each and every suggestion will be more than welcome.
> 
> Lorenzo
> 
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