Subject: Re: Booting from the Install CD Problem
From: Michael Long (protean1358@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat May 27 2000 - 15:36:26 MDT
on 5/27/00 3:27 PM, Peter Muhlberger at peterm@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
> Hi folks: Well, I was so excited about getting started w/ YDL that I
> thought I'd save some time by downloading the install CD images & burning
> them myself. Although everything seems to have gone well, but when I tried
> to boot from the CD, MacOS9 boots instead. I'm going to go ahead & order
> the CDs from YDL, but now I'm curious as to what could have gone wrong.
>
> The steps I followed were: downloading ydl-cs1.2-install.iso from a server
> using Fetch set to binary download. Mounting the image using DiskCopy, and
> then burning a CD using ISO-9660 format w/ manual file naming so that none
> of the file names would be changed (strict ISO-9660 would change some of
> the file names). I also labeled the CD 'ppc' (in lower case, because that
> was the name of the disk image volume).
>
> Anyone have any clues on what went wrong?
>
> peter
>
Did you include a ramdisk, a CHRP script, and a boot script on your disk?
If you can't find out what these scripts are suppose to say (i.e, YDL site
can't offer this info.), send another message to this mailing list.
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Michael Long <protean1358@earthlink.net>
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