Subject: Re: 8500/150 and YDL
From: Ole Kristoffer Apeland (oleap@student.matnat.uio.no)
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 08:03:25 MST
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Adrian Madrid wrote:
> --- 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)
>
You have to put the BootX app in the contolpanel folder inside the
systemfolder, the +(dot)bootx goes into your extensionsfolder. Then create
a folder named "Linux Kernels" in the systemfolder (and plase the kernels
there;-). then you copy the ramdisk image to the root of the
systemfolder... That should be suffisiant to start the BootX first thing
when you boot your machine;-)
Also: You should dowload the new bootx.sit from ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/
> > 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?
Ole K. (also a linux newbie)
>
> >
> > 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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