Can't recognize CD, at all....

[David Purdy]

Hi Grant:

Say, did you burn your ISO images under the "Disk
Image" option in Toast? (a HowTo at the YDL site
explains this) 

I noticed that you said 2.3 (Dayton, right?).  But you
also said **"ISOs"** {plural} . I installed 2.3, and
there is only 1 YDL 2.3 ISO. (YDL 3.0 has three
install discs).   Perhaps you are using another - or
some second/incompatible CD.  Correct me if I'm wrong
(anyone else reading) but TTBOMK, the 2.3 install is a
single-CD install. (the updates prm.ppc's do occupy
another CD's worth of space, but that's not part of
the install.)

Also, did you let Toast verify your burn (after
completing the burn) ? 

Did you check to see that disk mounts normally when
you start up under MacOS (you should be able to open
it in MacOS and see a whole ground of files - not just
one big file)?  

I assume that you have OS 8 or OS 9 running on that
6400.  Under the HowTo's there is a report of someone
installing YDL (2.3, I think, on a 7500, running OS
7.5 - might deserve a look)

I installed 2.3 on my 7300/233MHz, just to get the
hang of it.  I like it - nice that you can tinker
under the hood now on very-legacy machines that OSX
left out in the cold.  I am becoming more and more
convinced that I should load it onto my spare G3
Minitower.

Good Luck,

Dave



--- Grant <gfl1@optonline.net> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I downloaded and burned the YDL 2.3 ISOs.  It all
> seems successful, and 
> I was able to load boot-X on the old 6400 powermac
> (yep, i said old) 
> and begin the install process.
> 
> Somewhere along the line, though, things went
> poorly.  When it began to 
> install, it said something like" YDL only supports
> installs from the 
> CD, and you haven;t got one I can read, ok?".  Hmmm.
>  Its an Apple 
> machine, with an Apple CD drive, that works (it
> loaded the boot-X).
> 
> Any advice?  My error in CD formatting?
> 
> Similar experience with my G4.  i have a partition
> just waiting, but it 
> refuses to boot from the CD.
> 
> All advice welcome.
> 
> Grant
> gfl1@optonline.net
> 
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