Trying to install on a 3400c PowerBook. Help! (corrected)

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Deacon Nikolai:
We are all learners, here.  Interesting that there is a similar 
statement regarding the purpose of life stated in as ancient a work as 
the Bhagavadgita which is only one text of the Mahabharata.  A similar 
phrase is found in the Epics of Gilgamesh and I'm sure that sentence 
has been repeated throughout the human experience.  But that is enough 
philosophy for today!

Since you are running YDL 4.01 elsewhere you may have a ready tool 
which you can use, which many others do not.  I know I didn't.  Take 
your YDL 3.0.1 disks and have them examined under YDL 4.0.1!  This is 
how you do it.

When you are on the Mac with YDL 4.0.1, first make sure the Mac is 
shutdown.  Then boot it up, Press the c key.  This will cause the Mac 
to switch to YDL 4.0.1.  Keep pressing the c key.  A black screen 
appears, let go and clear that line of c's by deleting.

Now type:

install mediacheck

Wait till it this program begins.  Then click to get to the test where 
mediacheck will check any CD you place into your CD drive.  Place those 
YDL 3.0.1 CD disks there, it will test them for everything.  There is a 
caveat here though; I'm not sure if mediacheck will only examine those 
disks within it's version.  In other words, the program may be 
intelligent enough to distinguish between 3.0.1 and 4.0 or 4.0.1 if 
that is the case then it may inspect only 4.0 or 4.0.1 CDs considering 
all others failures.

In which case we try a different approach, more techie.  See this link 
and try it out:

http://rhlinux.redhat.com/anaconda/manualtest.html

One more thing, accessing Sharp (www.sharplabs.com) is different from 
accessing the YDL FAQ pages which reside on a specific sharp server set 
aside for that purpose.  If it cannot be accessed via the link provided 
then it is under repair or being moved to another server or Sharp has 
changed it's mind regarding the YDL FAQ pages.  You can try again at 
another time.  Meanwhile, I hope that this is helpful.

Best wishes...

On Aug 8, 2005, at 8:05 PM, Deacon Nikolai wrote:

> Dear Derick,
>
>     I apologize for not being clearer.
>
> I originally meant to install 4.0.1 on my 3400c but thanks to you I 
> realized this was not possible. After finally burning the CDs 
> correctly, I installed 4.0.1 on my iBook running Mac OSX 10.4.2. This 
> was very simple for me and has been running like a dream.
>
>     Daily I seem to keep learning more from both trial and error and 
> your emails. What I am having trouble with now is my 3400c. I have a 
> minimal install of Mac OS 8.5 on it. I got BootX working finally and 
> am able to get it to start booting from the 3.0.1 CD to install. 
> However I am getting errors when trying this. It does not always stop 
> at the same point, but I have gotten various messages before it 
> stopped including most often "I can't recover from this" and "Warning 
> unable to open an initial console" and "Will reboot in 180 seconds".
>
>     I have been trying to access the site you mention on my iBook, but 
> keep getting this error when trying: Safari can’t open the page 
> “http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/start” because it could not 
> connect to the server “www.sharplabs.com”. yet I can got to 
> www.sharplabs.com just fine!
>
>     I will try going to in in Firefox after I get it from Yum thanks 
> to your help! Thank you again Derick!
>
> In Christ,
> Deacon Nikolai
> http://www.Stanosheck.com

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