Subject: Re: YDL2 install on a 4400 PPC?
From: erick curtis (erick_curtis1234@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jul 11 2001 - 19:18:03 MDT
You cannot boot from a cd on an old world machine.
install bootx into your macs contorl pannels folder
and the boot x extention in the extensions folder.
click on the bootx app in the control panels folder of
OS 9 and go from there.
--- linux@demian.shacknet.nu wrote:
> The key part of that message was the first sentence:
>
>
> Patrick Ladam writes:
>
> > "J. Tirrell" wrote:
> >
> >> Old-world ROM machines can't boot from the YDL2
> CD.
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
> > I know all this but for the moment my problem is
> to have the YDL installer
> > starting on
> > this damn old 4400. The choice of the bootloader
> comes later on during the
> > install.
> > I have to substitute the default kernel on the CD
> by a kernel suitable for the
> > 4400
> > but I don't know if this is sufficient (should I
> substitute the ramdisk_image
> > too?)
> > The problem is the installer does not have the
> suitable kernels for the 4400
> > basically.
>
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