Subject: Re: booting after downloading help
From: pete (pete@linuxfreemail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 13 2001 - 11:24:37 MDT
What kind of system are you trying to install on?
I'm not sure about new world Macs, but old world Macs (basically, the beige
ones) will not boot from the CD. You need to run the BootX installer from
the CD, in MacOS. That will allow you to boot into the Linux installer,
which will create a RAM disk, copy the files it needs from the CD, and boot
into Linux off the RAM disk for installation.
HTH,
-Pete
>
> Hi all I am new to linux and can't wait to get my feet
> wet, after a couple of frustraiting days getting the
> ydl downloaded on my hd, i burn a cd of yld and the
> tasty cd, but cannot boot off of it to install, i am
> sure i screwed up along the way with the download, i
> turned off my post processing in my ftp client and it
> is one large file which i could make a disc image and
> burn with disc copy. now the other times i tried to
> download it with post processing enable it unpacked
> some thing got to about 130mb of the download and hung
> up. this happened about three times, so if anyone can
> help from here i would appretiate it, i have two cds
> burned the files are there it just seems like they
> need a little kick in the rear to be reconized?
> thanks
> Johnny
>
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