YDL on upgraded Powermac 9500 G3-450
Dominique Werner
yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:50:48 +0200
Alan,
I had the same problems with the Apple CD-ROM and Linux and the
original processor, I don't know how many variants of burning I had
tried incl. burning as HFS and HFS+.
Thanks for your help.
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:37:31 +0100, Alan Bailey wrote:
> Ahh.... The problem must be the Cyberdrive CD-Rom then.... you say
> it has its own custom drivers?? Maybe they can only access
> HFS/HFS+ format Disks?? Is there a support website for the
> Cyberdrive?
>
> As I said before.. if you still have an original Apple CD Rom
> lying around.. I'm 99 percent sure your probs will be over.
>
> Good luck,
> Alan.
>
> On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 08:35 pm, Dominique Werner wrote:
>
>> Hi Alan.
>>
>> I burned the cd with the Toshiba DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive that shipped
>> with my Powermac G4 MDD under OS X, I don't have a cd-rw, just the
>> Cyberdrive SCSI in the Powermac 9500. I had the same problems mounting
>> a cd on the PM 9500 when I had burned a cd with the Matshita CD-RW in
>> my old Indigo iMac. BTW, YDL will install just fine on my 40GB drive on
>> my MDD, burned with Toast under OS X, as disk image.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:52:59 +0100, Alan Bailey wrote:
>>> Dominique,
>>> I did my burn on a Pioneer DVR A03 under OSX. Maybe
>>> its your CD Drive? Do you still have the old CD Drive that was
>>> standard with your 9600?
>>> I tried to use an Apple 24x IDE CD Drive attached to
>>> an Acard IDE Card in my 8500, and the YDL Installer wouldn't see it
>>> at all. I had to get an old 4x SCSI CD Rom out of the cupboard!!!
>>> Not sure its related.. but its somewhere to start :-(
>>>
>>> Alan.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 07:28 pm, Dominique Werner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Alan.
>>>>
>>>> thanks for your help.
>>>> That's what I did, I burned as ISO9660 but the cd won't even mount
>>>> under Mac OS 9.1.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:37:49 +0100, Alan Bailey wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> Did you burn the ISO image under the ISO9660 format in Toast?
>>>>> This is what worked for me. I also didnt hit the Mount button in the
>>>>> ISO window in Toast. When I tried the Burn under Disk Image it didnt
>>>>> work at all. After I did that all my 'Images' mounted fine on Mac
>>>>> OS9. Then you need to do the ole' Boot X install as per the Install
>>>>> PDF on the YDL site.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alan.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 05:35 pm, Dominique Werner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I hope you can help me install YDL on my upgraded Powermac 9500
>>>>>> Sonnet Crescendo G3 450mhz.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I burnt the ISO image as told on the website with Toast
>>>>>> Titanium under
>>>>>> Mac OS X but when I try to boot the Powermac
>>>>>> (Cyberdrive 24x SCSI CD-ROM and Adaptec 2930 SCSI Controller, 2GB
>>>>>> Quantum Fireball (2 partitions, Mac OS 9.1 and one unallocated for
>>>>>> Linux) - both drives are connected to the controller but won't work
>>>>>> without it either)
>>>>>> the cd fails to mount, for whatever reason. I have the latest Mac OS
>>>>>> driver for the Cyberdrive but I don't know if I'm missing additional
>>>>>> boot parameters to get the Cyberdrive CD-ROM to see the CD.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone knows what do do or has experience installing YDL on Old World
>>>>>> ROM Powermacs?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards / Gruss
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dominique Werner
>>>>>> dwerner1974@mac.com
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>>>> Regards / Gruss
>>>>
>>>> Dominique Werner
>>>> dwerner1974@mac.com
>>>>
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>>
>> Dominique Werner
>> dwerner1974@mac.com
>>
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Regards / Gruss
Dominique Werner
dwerner1974@mac.com
Visit my website @ http://dwerner1974.homeunix.com
Friends are angels who lift us up to our feet
When our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.