Subject: Re: Installing YDL 2.0
From: downtime null (downtime@austin.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 22:03:36 MDT
On Saturday 07 July 2001 20:46, John Canning wrote:
> On Sat Jul 7 19:46:19 2001 downtime null wrote:
> > i was trying to install YDL 2.0 on a Power Mac 7300/200... i unpacked the
> > BootX loader and install it. then i restarted and chose the
> > ramdisk-text.image.gz. it came up to the installer, i chose custom and in
> > the partitioning, i removed all the Mac partitions and created a 10 meg
> > boot, 128 meg swap and the rest (1.9 gig) linux native. then the
> > installer went to the formatting part and died. now i'm stuck. no Mac OS
> > install media and i can't figure out an alternate way to boot the system.
> > is there and install disk or something? is there any way to boot to the
> > cdrom?
>
> Try rebooting and holding down the C key; that tells most Macs to
> boot from the CD-ROM drive.
it still just comes up to an icon of a floppy with a flashing "?". is the YDL
2.0 cdrom made from the .iso on the YDL site bootable? if not, is there some
way that i can make one bootable?
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