[nmglug] Linux on a PowerBook 3400c

[Zach Weinberg]

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A while ago I picked up a broken Powerbook 3400 from a friend. After
replacing the screen and messing around with it for a little bit, I
decided to try and put Yello Dog on it.

The laptop is running OS 7.6. Yellow Dog offers instructions for OS 9
but none below that. So, i tried to do it with as much as I could
glean from the OS 9 instructions. I "initialized" the hard drive into
one 100 MB partition for the Mac OS and left the rest (Something like
2 GB) blank. Then I burned a copy of the first disk of Yellow Dog
3.0.1 (the latest version of Yellow Dog) and began installing it per
the instructions given at
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/installation/ydl3.0_guide-single.pdf
. I tried to unzip the boot loader file BootX_1.2.2.sit but StuffIt
told me the archive was corrupted. I burned another copy of the CD, re
downloaded the ISO (thank god for braodband) and still, it said the
file was corrupted.

Im thinking I might need a newer version of StuffIt but I'm not sure.

If anyone has any experience with this or ideas on what can be done,
please any help would be greatly aprreciated.

Zach Weinberg
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