Yellow Dog Linux

Hi. I have two Macs. An eMac G4 1.42Ghz with 1GB ram and 160GB HD on everything (my computer) and a PowerMac 8600 with 64mb ram and 30GB HD (my sisters computer). I have OSX 10.4.2 on my eMac but my sister has OS8.6 in her PowerMac and I wanted to put Linux on it. I'm about to order Ubuntu for free but I decided that I would stick YDL 2.3 (which I burned from a friends copy) on that machine to test compatibility before doing so. But I'm having a problem. MacOS 8.6 doesn't recognize the CD (and I'm sure the CD is good 'cause it's recognized by OSX and also my friends iBook 600 MHz G3 recognizes it when I boot to OS 9.2.2 and also when I boot to OSX 10.2.8. And I wanted to know. Is the PowerMac 8600 oldworld or newworld and if it's oldworld can I make OS 8.6 recognize the CD or can I boot to it directly.

Thanks

Hi
If I remember correctly the CDROM in an 8600 (an 'Oldworld' rig-ie: pre iMac & B&W G3) won't read disks unless they're older 650MB capacity. Try either installing a newer Apple compatible CDROM or tracking down a 650MB blank disk.

I hope this helps

fudgie wrote:Hi
If I remember correctly the CDROM in an 8600 (an 'Oldworld' rig-ie: pre iMac & B&W G3) won't read disks unless they're older 650MB capacity. Try either installing a newer Apple compatible CDROM or tracking down a 650MB blank disk.

I hope this helps

I posted a similiar concern to comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc and Garner Miller was nice enough to reply in
google groups that Verbatim DataLife work on old Macs. His link to CompUSA is dated - they no longer sell them - but officedepot should work.

Hope this helps.

Sincerely,