Installing 10.1 on B&W G3
Well, all is not well. I am on my 3rd attempt at installation. I selected use the add-on CD the first time. After finishing Disk 1, it asked for the add-on. Weird, but. Then it asked for disk 1, then the add-on, then disk 1, then the add-on, and then YaST crashed. Tried rebooting hoping that it had successfully installed the boot loader. No such luck. It showed a folder on the screen and the computer was locked up. 2nd attempt. Decided to restart without the add-on CD. Started the installer. YaST reported that the 39.2MB Mac_HFS partition I had created was an HPFS/NTFS partition. Deleted it and redid and restarted. YaST failed to install gconf, and then crashed again with about 20-30 packages left :( . 3rd shot. The HFS patition was labeled as a Linux partition this time. Redid and am now re-installing yet again. Bootloader again failed. Rebooted and started installed system. System booted and started YaST. Detected network cards, asked for disk 2 and resumed installing. I dropped to a shell and check the Mac_HFS partition. It is once again labeled as a Linux Native partition type. YaST once again locked up with only 14 packages remaining. I was able to switch to a terminal and use reboot instead of just powering off or using the apple reboot key command. 4th. Of course, now the dang video card is once again refusing to show yaboot. This is getting to be ridiculous. Of course, I had problems installing v10.0 on my other "old world" macs, but at least they would show something. I realy wish that I had done some testing for v10.1 because it is falling way short of what I was expecting. v10.0 was a great system once it got installed. I expected issues with the Old World machines, but I am definately dismayed that I am having so many problems with this B&W G3. Finally got into yaboot and started the installed system yet again. Granted, I guess some of the problems could be coming from the overclocked processor, so I will try another install to see if I can reproduce these problems. Anyway, YaST started, and detected the nework cards yet again. Hopefully CD 2 took, and all I will need to do is run CD 3 again. It did, it saw none of the packages that had been instaled from CD 3. Isn't there a way to log what packages have been installed soi that if the computer needs a reboot for some reason that it doesn't have to start from the beginning of the last disk? Another thing is that I have never had the installer verify the CDs on the PPC systems. Never. It failes them every time. Well it once ahain failed to install vcdimager-0.7.23-19.ppc.rpm. Here we go again. From scratch. I really can't be the only one who is having this much trouble installing this stuff can I? ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com
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