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

[Deacon Nikolai]

I have it up and running! Yum appears not to be working on 3.0, so  
this is another hurdle, but having it all installed and working is  
great. Again, thank you for all the help!

In Christ,
Deacon Nikolai
http://www.Stanosheck.com



On Aug 8, 2005, at 8:33 PM, Deacon Nikolai wrote:

> Dear Derick,
>
>     Actually one of your responses to another person lead me to  
> read the 2.2 directions rather than just the 3.0 and 4.0 directions  
> I had read and it was more clear about something that helped me to  
> get the install working! Right now the 3400c is on the second disk  
> of the install. So far, so good! I will let you know if all went to  
> plan and if I have any other questions. Again thanks for the help  
> and the philosophy lesson. I would not be this far without your  
> valuable expertise! :-)
>
> In Christ,
> Deacon Nikolai
> http://www.Stanosheck.com
>
>
> On Aug 8, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:
>
>
>> 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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