Dru,
Yup, you found a genuine pompous [insert anatomical reference here] - welcome
to the "community." :-)
Regarding the question you asked: I had similar issues. YDL 4.0.1 does not
contain a needed patch to address changes in the SATA hardware (at least that's
the explanation I've found), but YDL 4.0.91 does. So I paid for access to
ydl.net in order to get that package. It wasn't an unmitigated blessing, but
it did allow me to get up and running. If you're not terribly familiar with
Linux on PPC, it's probably the best (and most cost-effective) way to go.
However, the other problem I had with 4.0.91 was that the machine sounded like
a vacuum cleaner after about ten minutes - the thermal management stuff doesn't
work on Powermac 7,3. After some research on my own on sites like
penguinppc.com, I found a patch that fixes this - see my post in the YDL forum
under "G4, G5 and XServe" on "Bought a new G5 tower? Quiet your fan!"
As you imply in one of your questions, YDL does expect you to wait until they
come out with a new release, which isn't necessarily realistic. But that's the
reality of the "Linux community": either you are dependent on the folks who
produce a particular distribution (really, much like being dependent on any
other software vendor, such as Microsoft or Apple) OR you develop the skills
(relatively modest, these days) to make changes yourself. The positive thing
about open source software is that you may do so; the down side is that often,
you MUST.
Ignore the pompous [insert plural anatomical reference], sort through the
drivel, and welcome to the wonderful, wacky world of open source. -- Ian
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Today's Topics:
1. G5 installation (Dru Kepple)
2. Re: G5 installation (Derick Centeno)
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5. Re: G5 installation (Cian Duffy)
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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
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