Installing on a PPC 5400/180

[Ron McCy]

I'm pretty sure using YDL on an older Mac WOULD require that you install the 
Mac OS first.  The dual boot program actually runs from the Mac side I 
think.  Try using the Mac OS CD and hold the C key down when you power 
up....go from there.

Good Luck!


>From: "Matty Sarro" <stmjs09@moravian.edu>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>Subject: Installing on a PPC 5400/180
>Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:29:06 -0400
>
>Hello all! I work for Moravian college. We are currently attempting to
>experiment with YDL on an older mac which we have available. It's a PowerPC
>5400/180. The mac had been sitting in storage for quite some time now,
>however it booted without much of a problem. It DID however have a bad hard
>drive. The only hard drives we had available had already been formatted for
>PC's, but I'd heard that it should work either way (partitioning software
>would do the rest).
>
>So, I replaced the hard drive with a 'new' 4 gig western digital caviar, 
>but
>now upon booting it brings up a picture of a folder with a blinking 
>question
>mark on it. I've tried booting off of the YDL cd by both holding C after
>booting, and by holding cmd+opt+shift+del and neither option works. Must I
>install one of the Mac OS's first? Or is there something else which I'm
>missing?
>
>Thank you all sincerely for your help.
>
>-Matty
>

_________________________________________________________________
Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. 
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail