I've been trying unsuccessfully to install YDL 4.0.1 on an external 130GB FireWire drive from a new Aluminum G4 laptop. I joined YDL Enhanced and downloaded the four YDK 4.0.1 ISOs including yellowdog-4.0.1-orion-20050208-install1.iso. I seem to have successfully burnt the CDs using Toast on OS X. (The YDL installer verified the media on discs 2-4, but one disc 1 said "Unable to read the disc checksum from the primary volume descriptor. This probably means the disc was created without adding the checksum. I didn't perceive this as a deal-breaker). The installer CD indeed booted with a YDL FireWire logo and showed the FW drive. The FW drive originally had a single partition formatted for OS X. I told the installer to partition automatically and remove all partitions so that the entire drive would be dedicated to Linux.
The installation process concluded with an indication that it was successful, however the FW drive doesn't show up when I restart or cold-start holding down the Option key on either the new Aluminum PowerBook or an older 800MHz Titanium. (FYI, the optical drive on the Ti-book is flakey, so I can't try installing from that machine even though it will be my primary host for this FW Linux drive). After I realized the installation didn't seem effective, I started part of the way back into the installation process to see what Disk Druid could tell me and I see /dev/sda broken down into the following: /dev/sda2 Apple Bootstrap 1 1 1 /dev/sda3 ext3 129951 1 16567 /dev/sda4 swap 1020 16567 16697 /dev/sda5 ext3 100 16697 16710 I'm a relative Linux newbie. Any help would be appreciated. Jeffrey Paul Burger _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
