[TriLUG] Yellow Dog Troubles

[Bill Vinson]

I can't burn any YDL CDs before tonight's meeting as I am at workm :)
But, I do have a LinuxPPC CD in the library if you would like to give it
a shot...

Bill

On Thu, 09 Aug 2001, John Matthews wrote:

> I have been unable to burn a bootable CD-R of Yellow Dog Linux from the
> .iso images I found online. If anyone has a copy or can burn a copy
> (must be bootable on a Mac) then I'll gladly trade blank media and/or
> moolah for them at the meeting tonight. (Email me:
> jvmatthe at math.duke.edu )
> 
> The story so far...
> Has anyone tried burning CD-Rs of the YDL .iso images available online?
> It could just be me and my Mac, but my impression is that they aren't
> actually hybrid images. And the mkINSTALLCD script that they provide is
> kind of broken, or at the very least difficult to use. For example, the
> script encourages you to use mkisofs, but since mkisofs was merged with
> mkhybrid, I don't believe you can make HFS images that are *not*
> read-only. So when you need to "bless" the appropriate parts of the HFS
> portion of the hybrid with hfsutils (hmount, hattrib, etc.) it complains
> that the thing you're trying to change is marked read-only. Mandrake's
> beta PPC distro actually includes a binary of an older version of
> mkhybrid that does work and uses mkhybrid in their variation on YDL's
> mkINSTALLCD script. After getting the older mkhybrid, making a hybrid
> image that was *not* read-only, and actually having the "bless" commands
> work like they should (or so it seemed), the disc that came out of it
> was still not bootable. If my suspicion is correct (about YDL not making
> hybrid images available) then it seems like a bit of a gimmick to get
> you to buy their discs instead of doing it yourself from the online
> versions.
> 
> Anyway, if anyone has any experience with this, I'd be curious to know
> how you got things working. Last night I finished wgetting the Mandrake
> beta PPC .iso images and may try those next, but I don't have high
> hopes, if they have the same problems.
> 
> Naturally, I could just have a screwed up Mac, but the OS 9.x and OS
> 7.5.3 discs boot fine from the CD without any coaxing.
> 
> Regards,
> matt
> 
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