Problems installing Yellow Dog Linux onto Old World Mac

[Jeffrey Rolland]

Hello, all!

I am attempting to install Yellow Dog Linux (versions 3.0.1 and 4.0.1  
burned and tried, 2.3 burned but not yet tried, waiting for CDs onto  
which to burn 4.1) onto an Old World Mac (Power Macintosh 7500 with 1  
GB RAM and a 50 GB HD (10 GB Mac OS 8.6 and 40 GB unformatted)) and I  
am having trouble.

The 4.0.1 disk won't load Anaconda (the YDL installer engine) and  
crashes.

The 3.0.1 disk will load Anaconda, but won't read the 3.0.1 disk for  
data and keeps waiting for readable CD; the 3.0.1-loaded Anaconda  
will read the 4.0.1 disk a little bit, but then crashes.

Is there anybody on the list who has experience using BootX and  
mayhap even experience installing YDL on a machine this old? I am  
contacting TerraSoft about purchasing installation support, but the  
Mac is so old that I have little hope for this.

Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.

Sincerely,
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Jeffrey Rolland
<jrolland at softhome.net>