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?

HOW TO INSTALL YELLOW DOG:
(hehe, clear enough?)

you dont have to boot from the cd. listen up:

- open the burnt disc in mac os.
- open the install folder.
- copy the file BootX_Installer.hqx to your desktop.
- use Stuffit to expand this (must be Stuffit 5.5 or higher)
- this will place the installer for the boot X loader onto your machine
- run this installer to install the loader, the linux kernels and the appropriate extension
when your done installing you will be asked to reboot. after you reboot a menu will come up. you can start up linux from here. if you have trouble with the video when you are in linux, try restarting and, at the boot menu, click the box that says 'No video driver'.
if you are asked to locate the linux image, at the boot menu click on 'options' and direct it here:

/System Folder/ramdisk-x11.image.gz

now just follow the menus in the install.. it's simple.

tips for the linux install:

if you are installing on your startup disk (as a second bootable os) you must first run Drive Setup (in the utilities folder in mac os). you must format the drive with custom initialization in order to create 2 partitions. this will require booting from your mac os cd as you cannot format the disk while you are loaded into mac os. next, install the mac os (yes i know it seems redundant after you just formatted) on one of the partitions. reboot into mac os and, using the instructions above, install the Boot X loader from the linux cd. reboot into linux.
when installing linux, remember you must add the 3 required partitions to the disk space you allocated to linux.(1) 10 mb for the loader (2) 256 mb for the swap file (3) the rest for linux.

have fun!

- Bill, avid PC user