I've downloaded the Yellow Dog Linux install.iso file from their ftp site. Now I cant't do anything with the file. I've tried to burn it to a CD using Toast 4 Deluxe in the iso 9660 format and the Mac/iso hybrid. still nothing. How do I extract this file and use the contents? How do I get it burned onto a CD???? HELP!!>?!!??!>!>!<

You simply cant! If the iso is made on a pc there is no way to burn it on a mac, but... You can install virtual pc and use adaptec toast for pc and extract/burn it that way. Im not sure if you can "extract" it but you can burn it if you have an usb cdr. / eric

That really confuses me because Yellow Dog Linux is designed to run on PPC Macs. Their whole web page is about running Linux on a Mac. Their whole support pages are about how to install and run Linux on a Mac. But now they let me download their software for my Mac and I can't even use it because it was made on a PC?!?!?!?!? BLASPHEMY!!!!!

After sifting through post after post I finally found someone in the same boat as I. I can't believe that Yellowdog would put the iso file up there (specifically designed for use on a MAC) for us to download yet not use. The ftp servers are always packed and there's a lot of other people succeeding where we're failing. I don't have a burner here at home so I'm trying to figure a way to mount the iso image on one of my hard drives and run it from there. I have multiple drives and read that it works this way but ??? No explanation of how to mount it?!?!? Disk Copy... Uh no, bad read error. I've downloaded this 650+MB file twice to make sure the first wasn't a bum. I also tried taking it to work to burn a cd but neither MAC recognized it as a bootable disk after burning. My version of Toast (4.x) apparently has no "make disk bootable" option which I've read about but not seen. Any clue on that option? It says right in YellowDog's documentation that you simply need to restart while holding the C key (same as any other startup CD). I want this to work!!! AARRGGHH!!!! Anyone... Anyone...?

Sounds like you guys are complicating a very simple task. And mmille, I'm astonished! Remember, anything a PC can do a Mac can do it better. All you need to do is open Toast, choose "Disc Image" as your format, click on "Data", choose your iso image and write your CD. You shouldn't have to specify that it should be bootable since that should already be an attribute of the image.

Hi, is anyone still working with this problem? I have downloaded the Yellow Dog Linux 2.1 iso install image and tried to burn it multiple times. It burns ok, but I cannot get any computer to boot from it! I noticed that none of the files on the CD seem to be recognized as system files (the icons do not look like system icons), as they do on a Yellow Dog Champion Server CD that my friend burned for me (on a PC) a year ago. How do I get the CD to be recognized as a boot disk? Is it a problem with the iso (I doubt it), a problem with what I'm doing, or a problem with something else? I have been using Disk Copy and the CD burning software that came with the Macintosh. I have tried mounting the image and copying the files, and I have also tried to image the mounted iso to the CD and then burning it (using Disk Copy). I think I'm probably just doing something wrong. Can anyone help? Thanks!

So, try downloading the disk image of darwin 1.4.1 from the Apple site. OS 9.1 treats is as a regular file. Toast does not recognize it as a disk image. In my frenzy, I believe that I even downloded the file on SuSe Linux on my G3 powerbook and even Linux would not recognize it as an iso image. Disk copy just barfs on it. So what the heck is it? Same prob. as Yellow Dog?