Subject: Re: 8500/150 and YDL
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@IainStevenson.com)
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 08:11:28 MST
on 24/11/00 2:45 pm, Adrian Madrid at aemadrid@yahoo.com wrote:
>
> 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.
Did you try booting your Mac with no proprietary extensions present and then
double clicking BootX.sea?
>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.
>
You need to put the Bootx extension in the extensions folder - this loads
before other extensions and brings up the linux/MacOS startup dialog.
>
> 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)
>
The linux CD runs under linux so it needs to boot a linux kernel from the
RAM disk (as far as I know). You select the RAM based kernel from the BootX
startup dialog. So getting the BootX dialog up at startup would help a lot.
Iain
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