Hi Steve: I'm sorry to hear of your misfortune. Perhaps you overlooked the hardware page here:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/hardware/apple-powermac-g5.shtml On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 11:16 -0400, Stephen Donahue wrote: > I recently acquired a dual 2.7ghz G5 and have since been attempting to > install YDL version 6.0 (with little success). My plan is to dual boot > linux / osx. > > My problem, I cannot begin the install process. The machine will boot > to the optical drive and load the bootloader. From there, everything > goes downhill. > I arrive at the "check media" screen (it verifies the disk integrity > successfully). Once I proceed to the actual installer the computer > suffers horrific graphical issues > The screen image becomes distorted, warped etc. At this point I am > unable to proceed. I found a tip online which stated that I should > lower the monitor resolution to 800x600. > However, as soon as I get to the check media screen the monitor > reverts to its native resolution (see below) > > My Hardware: > > dual 2.7ghz G5 PPC > 2 GB DDR SDRAM (two 1 GB PC3200U-30330 sticks) > ATI Radeon 9650 (AGP with 256 megs vram) > 20 inch apple cinema display > _______________________________________________ > yellowdog-newbie mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-newbie
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