Subject: Re: 8500/150 and YDL
From: Adrian Madrid (aemadrid@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 07:45:04 MST
--- Pablo Fernandez <spifflinux@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Adrian.
>
> Regarding your YDL installation problems, I would
> suggest to do not boot from your CD. The only thing
> you have to do is place the BootX.sea folder content
> in the right place, when you restart your Mac must
> appear a OS Selector, just be sure that is booting
> from the RAM Disk made to begin the installer.
My problem is that when I click on the BootX.sea it
says that it can't install the program dua to a -39
error. So I unzipped the files from BootX.sit into the
System Folder and it created a BootX directory (I also
copied the vmlinux/*.gz files to the sys folder).
Inside of the BootX folder there is this BootX file I
can run and asks me to choose between Mac and Linux.
> If you select the Linux button, the installer will
> begin and you must tell that you want to install
> from
> the CD. ( I have a Power Mac 7600, the same
> generation
> PPC as yours).
If I choose linux it starts the installer from the CD.
Unfortunately I have to start OS 9 to get there, it
doesnt start at boot. It looks as if it's going to
work but I don't know what you are talking about ram
disk (I know what that is but I don't know if the
installer is running from it or not)
> Hope this helps. Feel free to post more questions
> since Im a Linux newbie too : )
Definitely, it's getting better. Thanks again, looks
like the YDL community is pretty cool!
Adrian
PS Hablas espaņol por casualidad?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Pablo F.
>
> --- philippe tapon <philippe@ufoh.com> wrote:
> > Adrian Madrid wrote:
> >
> >
> > > * 3rd, what window managers/enviroments are
> > available
> > > (kde, gnome, wm, e, sawfish, etc.)? Games?
> >
> > there's a tiny one at http://www.xfce.org. Unlike
> > almost every window
> > manager since Mac OS 0.97 came out, this one has
> > dispensed with the
> > desktop metaphor--icons outside the file manager
> > refer to processes, not
> > files. You may or may not like this. The latest
> > version is small,
> > compiled easily, and is very stable. The RAM
> > footprint is sometimes
> > under 5 MB, a very good figure if you want to run
> > say Mac-On-Linux,
> > which can chew up lots of memory. KDE 2 is the
> most
> > ballyhooed window
> > manager out there right now, and it's certainly
> > attractive, but it's
> > relatively big and crashes a lot, I hear.
> >
> > > * 4th, I got a Personal Laserwriter 300 with the
> > > machine. In OS 9 it was darn slow to print a
> > single
> > > page. Does it get any faster in YDL? It looked
> > like
> > > the worst part was creating the image file in
> the
> > OS,
> > > after that the printer was allright.
> >
> > Probably it will get backgrounded more quickly.
> > And it may be faster.
> > I have a feeling your Laserwriter can handle
> > PostScript, which means you
> > may be in luck; Linux likes PostScript.
> >
> >
> >
> > philippe
> >
>
>
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