Subject: RE: Hard Drive install question
From: Vanco, Donald (VANCOD@PIOS.com)
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 06:59:55 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Black [mailto:cpa@ece.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 5:05 PM
> To: 'yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com'
> Subject: RE: Hard Drive install question
>
>
>
> Thanks for the advice, but I've never used zImage or rawrite.
> I'm sorry
> for newbieing out, but what is zimage and how do I use it?
Gotta learn sometime.....
zImage is a boot image - under a running Linux system it would
simply be a kernel in all likelihood. For the sake of this discussion
(installation) it's a bootable file & possibly some supporting files that
will allow hardware to come up (in all honesty I have not looked at this
floppy to see what it creates).
What's been done is this - all these files have been lumped into an
image that's exactly the size of a floppy disk (as a rule - sometimes
they're smaller, obviously never larger). rawrite is a tool that allows you
to make a floppy from that image - "dd" in Linux will essentially do the
same thing.
Hopefully, someone from the Mac world will chime in here and tell
you what that appropriate tool is - all I can tell you is that under Windoze
you'd use rawrite that is found in the /utils directory of the CD, or in
Linux you'd use "dd if=zImage of=/dev/fd0" or something like that - this
would get you the new (corrected) boot floppy you need.
If all else fails - I can send you a copy of the CD and a corrected
boot image floppy. CMU is one of the most wired campuses in the country -
isn't there somewhere you can pull the ISO of the CD and roast a new copy?
Don
> On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Vanco, Donald wrote:
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Black [mailto:cpa@ece.cmu.edu]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 2:17 PM
> > > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > > Subject: RE: Hard Drive install question
> >
> > No - the init process (from the floppy) is looking for both
> > directories as part of the install. As I said, it's
> broken. I had assumed
> > you had access to this partition of install data via Linux
> somehow. If you
> > can't write to the partition and make a "genuine symbolic
> link" you'll need
> > to use the new install image that was posted a few weeks
> ago - it supposedly
> > fixes the problems you describe.
> > Try booting with this image:
> http://www.terraplex.com/~dburcaw/zImage - it
> > resolved similar issues for me on the B50. You will need
> to have rawrite or
> > equivalent to turn the image into a bootable floppy.
> >
> >
> > Don
> >
> >
> > >
> > > -christopher
> > >
> > > On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yinz need to have both - YellowDog and RedHat (the install
> > > image you have is
> > > > know to be broken in this respect) - one needs to be a sym link.
> > > >
> > > > So, if the directory is YellowDog, from ITS ROOT type:
> > > >
> > > > ln -s YellowDog RedHat
> > > >
> > > > ..and you'll be fine.
> > > >
> > > > Don
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Black [mailto:cpa@ece.cmu.edu]
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 7:21 PM
> > > > > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > > > > Subject: Hard Drive install question
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > So, I could use a little advice. I am trying to install
> > > YD onto a G3
> > > > > Powerbook 266. I had the CDs, but they were stolen, so I
> > > am trying to
> > > > > reinstall from the harddrive. I am trying to install onto a
> > > > > removable bay
> > > > > harddrive (I had it up and running before, but I need to
> > > reinstall). I
> > > > > read the FAQ and saw that I could just download the
> > > YellowDog/base and
> > > > > YellowDog/RPMS folders and stick them on the harddrive.
> > > So, I made a
> > > > > folder called YellowDog and stuck the two folders inside. I
> > > > > placed this on
> > > > > my HFS partition of the removable harddrive. I get to the
> > > > > stage where I
> > > > > have to pick how I want to install and the partition shows
> > > > > up. I select it
> > > > > and I get told that the YellowDog install tree can't be
> > > found on the
> > > > > partition. I've tried changing the name of the folder
> > > they are in to
> > > > > Yellow Dog and even RedHat. I tried leaving the two
> > > folders on the top
> > > > > level. Nothing seems to work. Can anyone tell me what I am
> > > > > doing wrong?
> > > > >
> > > > > -christopher
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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