Use the 4.0.1 discs, and type install-safe at the boot: prompt. That should get it to install. Once it's installed, you can wrestle with it until X11 works.
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:05:03 +0000, jimhoward32 wrote: > Hello, please someone help (or I'll cry). > > We just bought Yellow Dog (4.0.1)from Terra Soft a few days ago. We tried > many times to install it (on an eMac PowerPC G4 that is about a year old). > When that didn't work, we tried installing 4.0. We always get the same error > after Anaconda starts running off the first installation disk: > > Using config file: "/tmp/XF86Config.test" > Parse error on line 71 of section Monitor in file /tmp/XF86Config.test > > The VertRetfresh keyword must be followed by a list of numbers or ranges > [....] > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > And then it exits the installation and tells us to reboot. > > Can someone tell us what is wrong. We were under the impression that Yellow > Dog was supposed to install on standard Mac Hardware - did we miss something > in the fine print? > > Thanks, > > Jim (and his son Jay, who already has to re-install all his games) > > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general > HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com' _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
