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

[Paul Higgins]

Wow, I'm surprised that even Debian wouldn't run on an Old World machine.  The 
Debian fanatics always make a big point about how it will run on just about 
anything.  I'm very interested in trying to get a newer version of YDL (i.e. 
4.0.1) running on an old beige G3.  It's too bad that it appears to be so 
difficult.  

I'll have to check into what actually _will_ run on the Old World machines.  I 
was pretty sure that the most recent version of Debian would install, but 
with a fairly high degree of effort.  I'm a Debian user at work (on x86 
machines), so I'm quite familiar with installing it; I also have Debian 
running on a dual G4 at home.

-PRH

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 19:02, jrolland at softhome.net wrote:
> 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
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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!