I have been an avid reader of several ppc linux mailing lists for years -- Have not posted in a long time.
Here is my issue: I have a 400Mhz Blue and White G3 with 512MB Ram and 2 hard drives -- 1 20gb Western Digital (the macosx boot drive) and 1 300gb Maxtor drive -- Now the problem is that with the onboard HD controller by default the 300gb Maxtor is seen as a 137gb drive unless I use the ATA HD patch from Intech. With that patch I can set multiple 137gb partitions and use all or most of the 300gb capacity of the drive. Under MacOSX this is not a problem as I use the smaller drive as the boot drive on this system anyway. However when I try to install yellowdog -- I cannot make it anywhere past the partition stage of the installer -- it never actually writes linux files to the drive. I have tried yellowdog 3.0 and yellowdog 4.0 --- Does the latest yellowdog have any software in it that allows it to properly see big drives? I have heard that fedora ppc does have some patch in it -- but have not been able to get it past the partition stage either. I could get a ATA controller card for this machine that would handle large drives but all of those that I have priced are beyond my price range at the moment. Does anyone know of a patch that would allow the linux installer to work properly or alternatively a controller card that could be had for $50 or less as opposed to the $79-$199 ranges I have seen thus far?? Thanks for any possible help. James Rooker. PS -- Fedora ppc installer gets to the partition stage just fine -- but not beyond it... Yellowdog sometimes errors out with a [EMAIL PROTECTED] error and cannot find a linux kernel to boot from -- or boots fine but does not get beyond the partition stage. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
