Hi. I'm new to Linux, new to Yellow Dog, new to this mailing list. Forgive me if the question I'm asking has an obvious anwer that's already been posted.
So, I have a dual 2.7 GHz G5 that seems to have bombed while I was updating to 10.4.3. I thought, hey, if I need to reinstall everything anyway, why not set things up for a dual-boot Linux system? So I did everything according to directions i found online and also in the Linux Bible 2005, and have a "free space" partition of about 20 GB set up on my main drive, as the first partition, and the rest I devoted to OS X. After getting OS X reinstalled, I stuck in the YDL 4.0.1 CD, disc 1, and rebooted. After typing install-g5 at the prompt, things started to, for lack of a better word, go. First text flashed across the screen, then more text flashed, except this time it looked a lot like the text that creeps over a Mac screen when a kernel panic occurs, and then more text flashed across the screen, this time being more like terminal text (actually, it looked more like a PC when they boot up...). It came to a halt, and most of it was a numbers and letters, but the last two lines said something about a kernel panic, and then rebooting in 180 seconds. And it did just that. After a quick glance at the yellow dog site, I did see that my model of computer wasn't officially supported. And there were many "D'oh's." So my question(s) is(are): is what happened what I should have expected to have happened (assuming I knew about the dual 2.7 incompatibilities)? Or did I do something wrong? Along those lines, is there anything to be done about this? Or do I just wait for an update to YDL? And if I wait, how long should I expect to wait? My particular model has been out for something like six months (I could be wrong, but I've had it for at least four)...how long do updates take? Thanks in advance, Dru _______________________________________________ yellowdog-newbie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
