They are burned using EZCD Creator 5 (Roxio) on a PC Running Windows 2000.
The cd's burn fine and I can select as many packages as I like ... and if I
choose individual package selection I can see all the RPMS ... but when I go
to start the install of all the packages I selected the cdrom drive spins
like it is reading and the hard drive is spinning doing it's normal thing
but then they both just stop and the system sits there doing nothing. I
check the num-lock light to see if I can turn it off and on checking for a
hardware lock ... and the system doesn't seem to be halted. It seems like it
is just software.
Sean
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stew Benedict
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 4:34 AM
To: mandrake PPC support
Subject: Re: Problems installing PPC 8.0 on PowerBook G3 (New
World/400/128M/6GB/DVD)
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Sean Fay wrote:
> It seems that when I go to install Mandrake on this machine I can get so
far
> as the package install (where it goes to install all the packages I
> selected) and then the cdrom drive seems to just powerdown and the install
> halts there not resuming even after an hour. This happens on both Mandrake
8
> and Yellow Dog 2 ... any suggestions?
>
Interesting. Are these purchased or self-burned images? Both Mandrake
PPC and YDL use a hybrid HFS/ISO9660 CD image, and depending on what
software and how you do the burn, you can lose this configuration and end
up with one or the other - not both.
HFS is need to make the CD bootable, while ISO9660 is used for the
remainder of the install.
Are you able to switch to VT2 (Command(Apple)-Control-F2)?
Do a:
ls -l /tmp/image/Mandrake/RPMS1
and make sure you can see all the RPM packages
You might also check on VT4 (Command-Control-F4) for any unusual kernel
messages.
I've seen several postings on the YDL list describing similar scenarios,
and it may just be some basic incompatibility with the DVD drive and some
CDR's.
Options:
If you have another machine, do a net install from the CD on that machine.
If you have a version of Linux on the machine already, and you have drive
space, copy the CD1 files to a partition or directory on the hard drive
(ext2). (You could also do this with the rescue image, if you don't
already have Linux on the machine - if you choose to go this route holler
and I'll give you steps).
HTH.
Stew Benedict
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