Old world Install prob

sloopy sloopy at ydl.net
Fri Aug 12 21:40:28 MDT 2005


this is known, it is because YDL doesnt officially support OW machine
this happens... ignore it, reboot and set bootx with your kernel and the
root partition set appropriatly... after you boot, it should continue
normally, if not run the firstrun and it should doing the setup stuff...

sloopy.


On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 17:52, Marc Stergionis wrote:
> I too ran into a problem. Got all the way through a gui install until 
> this error message when it tried to install the bootloader:
> 
> File "/usr/lib/booty/bootloaderinfo.py", line 1525, in write Yaboot 
> if bl.macosx !=None:
> AttributeError: ppcBootloaderinfo instance has no attribute "macosx"
> 
> I know ydl4 can be installed on Old World computers (I followed a 
> hint found on google to do so).
> 
> I partitioned this way:
> 
> /swap 289MB
> 
> /boot 75mb (the installer kind of insisted)
> 
> / maximum remainder.
> 
> Any hints?



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