ISO image problems- truncated names?

[Jim Steed]

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

FWIW, I have a Dual Processor G4-1GHz.  After 6 weeks of effort and the $30
YDL support, I still do not have working (>8 bit depth) video, but I have
worked through all other kinks.

> w/partitions, YDL alone on master drive, etc.) I do not recall talk of the
> bus speed. Where did I fail to look?

The only place it is documented is on the lists and on the g4 page in the
"Supported Hardware" section.

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/breakdown/powermac_g4.shtml

Actually, they have also now (first time I noticed!) made the beta
windtunnel ISO public (look for it in the above URL) which claims to support
ATA100.  I would definitely suggest using this ISO first unless you are
really into doing things the dirty way.

> 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)?

Yes.

> 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?

You should be able to put both on the ATA66 and they are probably already
jumpered to get their master/slave status from the cable.  If changing Buses
is a problem, perhaps try the Windtunnel ISO; it likely solves it but I
still have mine on the 66 so I don't know for sure.  Likely you will have to
use that ISO anyway if you ever want to have Network Setup work out of the
box:)

You will also want to look into the Yaboot hack that I posted on the
ydl-general list.  Otherwise, Yaboot will never boot anything for you.  The
most up-to-date Yaboot does not work with Windtunnels, even with the beta
ISO.  You will have to edit a config file and re-run ybin, so it is no big
deal.

Also, what video card do you have?  YDL doesn't support much.  I downgraded
from Radeon 9000 Pro to Radeon 7000 only to have no luck getting the 7000 to
work:(  If 8 bit color is good enough, you don't need to bother, but
otherwise, obviously I have nothing to suggest as neither I nor the YDL
support have been able to get anything better than that.

jim

>
> 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
>
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