[Fwd: Re:Problems installing Yellow Dog Linux onto Old World Mac]

[jrolland at SoftHome.net]

Hello, all!

Well, I checked the MD5Sum on the .iso I downloaded,and it's
33f5f2a407f36dfbb01946ece46bdf73, exactly what it's supposed to be (just
as I thought). That means that either (a) something's wrong with the
physical disk (which I doubt), (b) there's something wrong with my CD
burner/Disk Utility (which I doubt) or (c) there's something entirely
different going on, with 3.0.1 *and* 4.0 displaying these bizarre,
reproducible errors.

There is an "InstallFest" scheduled for the local Linux User's Group on
September 9; I'll see if they can shed any light on my woes.
Unfortunately, most of them are x86 people, and, of those that are PowerPC
people, I'm guessing most are New World people; thus, even the InstallFest
may be of little help.

Sincerely,
-- 
Jeffrey Rolland
<jrolland at softhome.net>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re:Problems installing Yellow Dog Linux onto Old World Mac
From:    jrolland at SoftHome.net
Date:    Wed, August 30, 2006 2:46 pm
To:      yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
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Hello, again, all!

Debian-PowerPC and KUbuntu-PPC didn't work at all (couldn't even get the
installer to run), so I'm back to YDL.

I have discovered that part of my problem was trying to install 4.0.1 on
an Old World Mac.

The directions in <http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?t=339> are
for 4.0, *not* 4.0.1 or 4.1; vmlinux-2.6.8-1.ydl.7 is the kernel that
actually ships with 4.0, and is incompatible with 4.0.1 for sure and 4.1
assumedly.

Having said that, I now get a "corrupt gcclib package" error at the start
of the installation (instead of the consistent hangs I got with 3.0.1).

Would anyone happen to have a copy of the original TerraSoft CDs for 4.0
(and maybe even the manual) I could buy from them? My 7500 can't read
CD-RWs and is very finicky about which CD-Rs it will read, so I really
need the original TerraSoft copies to isolate for where I'm getting the
problem.

Thanks much for all the help; I'll post to the YDL boards once I'm sure
what the problems are - the 4.0/4.0.1 thing was a big step forward!

Sincerely,
-- 
Jeffrey Rolland
<jrolland at softhome.net>

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