Probs installing on a 6500/250

[Suzanne Payne]

--On Saturday, February 22, 2003 10:09 am -0500 guillaume 
<pixelhaus@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> i downloaded and burnt YDL 2.3 last week so i could install it on my old
> trusty powermac 6500/250; i checked the requirements and supported
> hardware information, and everything should be fine, except perhaps for
> the installed RAM (64mb - i'm guessing that's enough, i haven't found any
> doc saying otherwise), more than enough disk space (4gb, excluding a mac
> partition of about 700mb) and the comm slot II ethernet card seems to fit
> in the supported NICs.
>
> i've got some experience with linux, at least for installing, but so far
> i've only used it on PCs (redhat from 7.x to 8.0 mostly), never on a Mac;
> for the past week, i've set partitions, deleted them, re-partitioned the
> disk and every single installation has failed. i'll get as far as the
> stage where the installer is resolving package dependencies, but comes to
> a dead stop, which lasts a couple of minutes, and then displays a cryptic
> error message and announces the machine will reboot in a couple of hundred
> seconds.
>
> i re-read the installation manual, the partitioning doesn't seem to be the
> problem, but i can't figure out why the installer comes to a dead stop
> every single time. for the record, i tried both the x11 GUI and text-mode
> installers, same error happens; but i haven't tried installing with the
> vmlinux-2.2 kernel, only the 'standard' 2.4 one. could my selection of
> kernel be the problem?

Could it be a problem with the disc itself?  Maybe try burning a new image 
and see if that solves anything.  64Mb is rather low, I believe 128Mb is 
recommended, though whether that would stop an installation I don't know. 
Can you recall the cryptic message at all?

Suzanne