ISO image problems- truncated names?

[Thomas F Endres]

Wow- that was the fastest ever recorded response to an email!- Thanks!

The machine in question is a new mirrored DPG4-800.

I will try the text installer- the video card not being recognized makes
sense.

My drive _is_ on the ATA100 bus... I have a feeling I missed something very
basic here   : )
But in my pursuit of YDL & MOL (now that OSX is supported), the install
movie, and reading through all of the various configurations (same drive
w/partitions, YDL alone on master drive, etc.) I do not recall talk of the
bus speed. Where did I fail to look?

Does this mean that on a new G4 w/ one drive that Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, and
YDL can reside together on the ATA66 bus (as per the movie setup)?

How does one configure 2 drives in this scenario? One each for each bus or
two on the ATA66 bus?
Mac on ATA100 and YDL on ATA66?

The movie also describes having a separate partition each for OS9 & OSX. The
Apple install discs do not let an install occur on non-HFS+ partitions so
there is a little confusion on as per what is mandatory to complete this
operation. If one drive is used, can one start with 2 partitions- one
unallocated for YDL and a second HFS+ for Mac OS 9 & X?

Whew- that should get me there!

Thanks Again!

Tom




on 11/19/02 10:59 AM, Jim Steed at jim@gedae.com wrote:

> 
> 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
> 

>> 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