Installation agony

[Brogan Ross]

Well I can't help you with the partitioning cause I haven't used it 
other than to partition my internal, with no problems.  But search 
around and ask on forums or places like this, and once you've gotten 
past the partitioning thing, I'm sure you'll be home free.  Good luck





rnuzum at verizon.net wrote:

>>From: Brogan Ross <broganross at mac.com>
>>Date: Mon Apr 25 13:50:30 CDT 2005
>>To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List <yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>>Subject: Re: Installation agony
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>right, I have used the text installation but can't get past the disk partitioning because YDL won't recognize my external firewire. 
>Sorry, to be so naive but you have cleared up the whereabouts of the file. I do run x11 from Apple but the file cannot be found there either. 
>Thanks, Bob
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>>Alright, I'm a little confused here.  But i'll give this a shot.
>>If you're having this display error during installation you need to use 
>>the text installation.  After you've finished the installation, you're 
>>going to have to boot in text mode, and then find the file, because it's 
>>installed with YDL, and I don't believe it's in OS X, unless you're 
>>running X11.  Are setting up a dual boot or just planning on running YDL?
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>>Robert Nuzum wrote:
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>>>Thanks again, but after long searching with finder, etc, I cannot 
>>>find  this file.
>>>Thanks, Bob
>>>On Apr 24, 2005, at 9:50 PM, Brogan Ross wrote:
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>>>>Yeah it should be in /etc/X11    and it's either called XF86Config 
>>>>or  XFree86.conf
>>>>here's a link to the place that I found this from:
>>>>
>>>>http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php? 
>>>>t=222&highlight=emac+working
>>>>
>>>>good luck with the rest of it
>>>>
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>>>>Robert Nuzum wrote:
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>>>>>Thanks for the suggestion. Do you know where this file is located.   
>>>>>I'm somewhat naive and
>>>>>
>>>>>I can't seem to find it in my system. I have a working kde via fink  
>>>>>with bells and whistles but I thought I'd try YDL.
>>>>>Thanks again,
>>>>>B
>>>>>On Apr 24, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Brogan Ross wrote:
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>>>>>>I had the same problem installing YDL on my eMac.  Not on an  
>>>>>>external but anywho.  The file that you want to get to in order to  
>>>>>>change the refresh rate is in /etc/x11/ it'll either be  
>>>>>>XFree86.conf, or for some reason mine is XF86Config.
>>>>>>I don't really know about the partitioning but I believe that you  
>>>>>>have to use Disk Druid to partition the drive, not Disk Utility.   
>>>>>>And I don't know but I believe you have to use yaboot in order to  
>>>>>>dual boot YDL and OS X.
>>>>>>Hopefully at least you can get your screen working.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Robert Nuzum wrote:
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>>>>>>>I  have an eMac with an external firewire drive. I am trying to  
>>>>>>>install ydl on this hard drive. When installing graphically I get  
>>>>>>>the documented error "no  screens found" and a parse error on 
>>>>>>>line  71 of /tmp/xF86 configtest. I have read some suggestions but 
>>>>>>>cannot  find this file to change the refresh rate. When I try to 
>>>>>>>install in  text mode I  run up  against the hell of disk 
>>>>>>>partitioning which  fails on automatic and also  using disk druid 
>>>>>>>according to the  manual. I previously partitioned the disk using 
>>>>>>>Disk Utility into  two partitions and reinstalled osx on the 
>>>>>>>second partitions as  suggested in the manual. I  tried to create 
>>>>>>>a osx boot sector and  it won't succeed with Disk Druid.
>>>>>>>Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't have the purchased  
>>>>>>>support.
>>>>>>>Thanks, Bob
>>>>>>>
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