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Postby zebralips » 15 May 2011, 05:00

i am working with a G4.
thank you

I came back and deleted the text that was here.
I am thinking of making it a goal to consolidate instructions.
the existing instructions are good, yet there are some over here and some other there.
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Re: knowledge base

Postby ppietro » 15 May 2011, 07:44

zebralips wrote:It is not my intentions to be negative, yet " if " the group of people who are making money off of YDL really want to make money, it would be good for them provide accurate information for each type of install in the web pages.
Place a price tag some where for the product, if you want money.
Charge $10.00 to watch a video of the real and accurate information to get thru yaboot install configuration for YDL.


A little history here. Originally there were two versions of YDL - a pay version and a free version. Part of what you got with the pay version was dedicated technical support - including help with installations.

Unfortunately, the pay version - and the dedicated support - has been discontinued. :(

At this point - the PowerPC free version is basically provided to the community as a courtesy. Fixstars is concentrating on their x86-64 CUDA solutions for IBM PCs and their Cell/B.E. solution for IBM PowerBlade servers. In my opinion - and I am not an employee of Fixstars - they're not expecting to make any more money off the PowerPC Mac/PS3 edition.

Luckily, you've come to this forum. We're a large family of volunteers, and we have a lot of experience with YDL - in all of its forms. If you post your problems with your installation here in our forum - you'll probably get the help you need.

Unfortunately - I don't have a G4 - I have a PS3 - so I probably won't be able to help you much. But there are G4 owners here who can help you.

Cheers,
Paul
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Re: knowledge base

Postby billb » 15 May 2011, 13:50

Hi, I have no idea what sort of problems you're having so here are a few links:

man pages for yaboot and yaboot.conf

http://hermes.ppckernel.org/cgi-bin/man ... l?8+yaboot
http://hermes.ppckernel.org/cgi-bin/man ... aboot.conf

YDL 6.2 Install Guide for Apple:

http://www.ydl.net/support/installation ... _guide.pdf

Some general tips:

http://www.ydl.net/support/solutions/ydl_general/

I've only recently started using YDL 6.2 on a PowerMac G4 but will try to help where possible. :)
PS3 60GB [CECHA01], FW 3.15, YDL 6.2, Samsung T260HD @ 1920x1200
Powermac G4 1.25 GHz x2, 2 GB RAM, YDL 6.2
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Re: knowledge base

Postby zebralips » 15 May 2011, 15:47

Thank you Bill b
for your assistance.
i was not reading the install instructions correctly.
have installed and now am reading the how to`s in the user info.
thank you.
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