ISO image problems- truncated names?

[Jim Steed]

Hello,

What are the specifics of your machine?

You are likely being defaulted to the text installer because the Dayton disk
doesn't automatically recognize your video card/monitor.  You can add
"video=..." arguments to the installer to get the GUI install, but the text
installer is not too bad.

What type of cable is your hard drive connected to?  ATA100 is not supported
in YDL 2.3.  You might need to move the hard drives to a lower speed cable
to get YDL to recognize them.  This is a necessity for newer G4s.

jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yellowdog-newbie-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> [mailto:yellowdog-newbie-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf Of
> Thomas F Endres
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:54 AM
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: ISO image problems- truncated names?
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have successfully downloaded and burned a dayton install CD
> (via Toast 5.2
> on a Mac). I then can boot up fine and start the installation process---
> BUT:
>
> The installer looks nothing like the pictures in the installer
> movie- looks
> like native Red Hat.
>
> And a hard disk for partitioning can never be found- and I am
> sure this has
> been set up correctly (2 drives- master set up unallocated).
>
> All of this reminds me exactly of installing LinuxPPC several
> years ago when
> there was a limitation to the character length of the RPM's that exceeded
> what a Mac could see. After manually looking at the
> /YellowDog/ppc/ contents
> (from the mounted ISO) I now also see some packages with
> truncated names in
> the dayton release. Is there an updated "package list" that deals with
> truncated names or am I to try to burn this on a PeeCee?
>
> Suggestions?
> Thanks In Advance!!
>
> Tom
>
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