Install of 2.3 onto old DP G4

[Chuck Coleman]

on 10/24/02 7:22 AM, Mike Worsfold at mike@worsfold.com wrote:

> I am attempting to install yellow Dog Linux 2.3 onto my DP 1GHz G4
> PowerMac.  I partition the first IDE disc as suggested with a 10MB
> startup, 256Mb swap and 1Gb Linux partition.  Then the installation of
> the packages fails with a "transaction error", and a suggestion that I
> should fix it manually!  Anybody have any idea where I can go from here?
> 
> I don't know if it is relevant, but I have MacOS X 10.2 installed on
> the SCSI disks, and I have a "titanium" graphics card, so the graphical
> install won't run.
> 
> Thanks for any help.

Try increasing the boot disk to 100MB. And 1 GB is rather small for your
main drive. It will work but I would go at least 2MB if not 3MB.

Chuck