Subject: BootX with G4 AGP
From: Richard May (rrmay@igc.org)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 23:03:01 MDT
Hi all,
I'm not usually in the habit of asking things that should be answered with a
simple "RTFM!!" But it seems I've got a little problem...
I just got the YDL CD's today and was excited about messing around with a
new flavor of Linux. I have some experience with Debian, Red Hat and
Mandrake so I'm not a TOTAL newbie to the OS.
Anyhows, the CD's don't include the latest "Guide to Installation" so I
tried to download it. Well... at 3.5kb per minute that would take about...
oh, I think 27 hours. (sometimes it would shoot up to a whopping 21.5k/m -
that's about 3.5 hours of download)
So I tried the BootX instructions that came on the CD.
The result is that when booting it pauses endlessly on this line:
hdd: interrupt lost
hdd: interrupt lost
hdd: interrupt lost
hdd: interrupt lost
hdd: interrupt lost
hdd: interrupt lost
etc, ad infinitum
I do know that hdd is my zip drive.
With that in mind, and after _many_ attempts to download the *Guide...*, I
decide to ask the mundane...
How do I set BootX for an AGP G4?
All I really need is enough to get the YDL installer loaded and then what
ever I need to get Linux to boot thereafter.
Sorry about asking for what's in the "Guide to Installation" but, without it
I don't have much of a choice.
Thanks for yall's patience,
Richard
-- Lazy people are the smartest, they do things right the first time.
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