Installation problem

[Kai Staats]

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 15:49, Brant Williams wrote:
> I have the same problem with an iMac G3 600 MHz.  Will not install
> yaboot.

Either a out-of-disk space issue ... or unable to remount the partition to 
affect the write. Have you by any chance upgraded the drive to a larger than 
original size?

kai



> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 17:11 -0400, Don Nuckols wrote:
> > I have tried twice to install YDL, and each time it goes through the
> > whole procedure, then at the end it puts up a small progress window
> > entitled:
> >
> > Performing Post Install Configuration
> >
> > The status bar is about half way across, and the computer is totally
> > locked. Cursor doesn't move, no response to any keys or key
> > combinations, only the hardware reset button works.
> >
> > Oddly enough, I have a very similar effect when trying to load Ubuntu
> > (tried twice also). It goes through the whole process, then at the
> > end it doesn't lock up but gives the message that it cannot install
> > yaboot. Why, I don't know. But in both cases, the install isn't
> > completed, so I can't use Linux to troubleshoot.
> >
> > This is on an iMac-DV. It's running OS-X Tiger, but is somewhat
> > sluggish (usually), being only a 400MHz machine. Hoping to get a
> > performance boost with Linux.
> >
> > Has anybody else run into this?
> > Anybody found a work-around or fix around for this?
> >
> >
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