Subject: Re: Installing YDL 2.0
From: downtime null (downtime@austin.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 22:45:44 MDT
thank you. that answered a lot of my questions.
On Saturday 07 July 2001 22:49, David C. Hacker, DVM wrote:
> You can't boot a linux CD on an old world ROM mac. You have to have a
> working install of Mac OS in order to run BootX and boot linux Only new
> world ROM machines like the iMac and Blue and White Pmacs will boot
> directly into linux
>
> > From: john@pcc.com (John Canning)
> > Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 21:46:58 -0400 (EDT)
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Subject: Re: Installing YDL 2.0
> >
> > 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.
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