Let me first say that I'm a newbie to the Mac; but not to the PC platform...
I'm running RedHat and Windows on my PCs for years now. :-) However the
Mac OS and hardware is new to me... :-(

Anyway, my problem is with installing Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 on a recently
acquired Power Computing - PowerCenter Pro 210 Mac (clone?)... I have no
prior history of this machine & don't have any of the original system CDs
(just ones from an old iMac at work).

I'm looking to convert it to a Linux OS, Yellow Dog preferred (because I'm
comfortable with RedHat & RedHat 'like' distributions...)

Here is some background info in case it helps:

The Mac appears to have been upgraded & has the following hardware:

- 210 MHz 604e processor
- 4 MB ATI Rage II video
- 128 Mb ram
- Adaptec Ultra SCSI PCI card; with the following devices connected to the
SCSI bus.
---- Smart Friendly 2x CDRW (appears to read audio CDs ok; but data CDs are
hit and miss)
---- original 16x SCSI CD drive (don't appear to work with any type of CD)
---- Iomega Zip-100
---- IBM 4 Gig SCSI hard drive
-- internal Ethernet adapter (works - connects to the LAN & works to surf
the web.)

The rest of the hardware is all standard and untouched as far as I can
tell... It does boot & is currently running Mac OS v8.6.

I downloaded the Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 ISOs from www.linuxiso.org, but burnt
them to CD on a Win98se system (since that is the only burner I have access
to; except for the one in this Mac which I don't know if I can trust or even
if works correctly...). My RedHat and Windows PCs can read the YDL CDs ok,
but it seams they cannot be mounted via this Mac or in the iMac at work...

I downloaded BootX 1.2.2 on the Mac and it appears to try to run it; but
fails due to kernel problems (missing kernel error messages appear)...
Since I cannot get the YDL CDs mounted, I've been unable to move over the
necessary files from the YDL CDs; as required by BootX.

Any ideas where to begin or what I'm doing wrong? Should I have burnt the
CDs on the Mac? Any help would be great...

Please Email Directly... Thanks...
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James
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