Fwd: Problems installing Yellow Dog Linux onto Old World Mac
Jeffrey Rolland
jrolland at softhome.net
Tue Aug 22 10:54:16 MDT 2006
Success! (Well, sorta ...)
After screwing around a bit with kernels, ramdisks, and CDs, I
arrived at a winning combo (I *knew* it was the kernel/ramdisk ...)
Trial n:
For BootX, I was using the kernel vmlinux-2.4.22-2fBOOT. I was using
ramdisk size 8192. I was using the "More Kernel arguments" of
"video=controlfb:vmode:13,cmode:32". I was using the ramdisk supplied
on the 3.0.1 CD.
For the CD, I was using the 3.0.1 CD.
Of course, this is an install of YDL 3.0.1, but, hey, it's an
install! I have to agree with Eric that "YDL 4.[x] and the OldWorld
Macs are simply not meant to be", although I will try using yum to
update to 4.x after I have the 3.0.1 install completed. (Could
someone give me a pointer to the info on how to update via CDs? I
used to hace the link, but now I can't find it.)
Anaconda started (in GUI mode!). I had to use fdisk to delete a Mac
OS partition on the partition of the hard drive onto which I wanted
to install YDL (Apple's Drive Partition utility only makes Mac OS
partitions, so I just needed to delete this and turn the partition
into free space), which was a bit scary, but I did it. Automatic
Partition on Anaconda took it from there.
Unfortunately, after selecting an "Everything" install for the
"Desktop" configuration, the installer hung on installing
xemacs-21.4.12-6, a 79,636 KB install (is that large?). There were 35
packages remaining out of 1380 total (1,345 completed) and 12 minutes
50 seconds remaining out of 4 hours 3 min 51 seconds total - VERY
FRUSTRATING! (%$^#*^%$*! ^%(%(*&$%#%! %^#^%##%^#^!) (Pardon my French
- I'm still learning.)
So, I'll try again with a smaller group of packages and excluding
xemacs (which I'll never use). But at least Anaconda ran!
Hope this is of use to someone.
Sincerely,
--
Jeffrey Rolland
<jrolland at softhome.net>
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Jeffrey Rolland <jrolland at softhome.net>
> Date: August 21, 2006 12:18:19 AM CDT
> To: Discussion List for New Yellow Dog Linux Users <yellowdog-
> newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Problems installing Yellow Dog Linux onto Old World Mac
>
> Hello again, all!
>
> I tried a few different things, and wanted to provide more specific
> feedback in the hopes that it may be useful information to some.
>
>
> Trial 1:
>
> For BootX, I was using the kernel vmlinux-2.6.10-1.ydl.1 included
> on the 4.0.1 CD (not the vmlinux-2.6.8-1.ydl.7 indicated in <http://
> www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?t=249> ("how to install YDL
> 4.0 on old world mac?") and <http://www.yellowdog-board.com/
> viewtopic.php?t=381>). I was using ramdisk size 58192. I was using
> the "More Kernel arguments" of "video=controlfb:vmode:13,cmode:32".
> I am not sure what ramdisk I was using.
>
> For the CD, I was using the 4.0.1 CD.
>
> The exact error message I received was
>
> "
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda:, line 193
> if outfields[0] == "connecting" and outfields[-1] == "failed":
> ^
> SynatxError: invalid syntax
> "
>
> The rest just indicated how the system abended and I could restart
> my machine.
>
> Trial 2:
>
> For BootX, I was using the kernel vmlinux-2.6.10-1.ydl.1 included
> on the 4.0.1 CD. I was using ramdisk size 58192. I was using the
> "More Kernel arguments" of "video=controlfb:vmode:13,cmode:32". I
> was using the ramdisk supplied on the 4.0.1 CD.
>
> For the CD, I was using the 4.0.1 CD.
>
> The exact error message I received was
>
> "
> install exited abnormally
> "
>
> The rest just indicated how the system abended and I could restart
> my machine.
>
> Trial 3:
>
> For BootX, I was using the kernel vmlinux-2.6.10-1.ydl.1 included
> on the 4.0.1 CD. I was using ramdisk size 58192. I was using the
> "More Kernel arguments" of "video=controlfb:vmode:13,cmode:32". I
> was using the ramdisk supplied on the 3.0.1 CD.
>
> For the CD, I was using the 4.0.1 CD.
>
> The exact error message I got was from Anaconda, and it said
>
> "
> You don't have enough RAM to run Yellow Dog. [OK]
> "
>
> (This is obviously silly, since I have 1 GB of RAM, but at least
> Anaconda ran.)
>
> Trial 4:
>
> For BootX, I was using the kernel vmlinux-2.6.10-1.ydl.1 included
> on the 4.0.1 CD. I was using ramdisk size 18192. I was using the
> "More Kernel arguments" of "video=controlfb:vmode:13,cmode:32". I
> was using the ramdisk supplied on the 3.0.1 CD.
>
> For the CD, I was using the 4.0.1 CD.
>
> The exact error message I got was from Anaconda, and it said
>
> "
> You don't have enough RAM to run Yellow Dog. [OK]
> "
>
> (This is again obviously silly.)
>
> Hope this is of some use to someone.
>
> Sincerely,
> --
> Jeffrey Rolland
> <jrolland at softhome.net>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Jeffrey Rolland <jrolland at softhome.net>
>> Date: August 20, 2006 4:08:25 PM CDT
>> To: yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>> Subject: Problems installing Yellow Dog Linux onto Old World Mac
>> Reply-To: Discussion List for New Yellow Dog Linux Users
>> <yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>>
>> 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,
>> --
>> Jeffrey Rolland
>> <jrolland at softhome.net>
>>
>>
>>
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