Re: What's the deal with bootstrap (can't find YDL to boot now)?


Subject: Re: What's the deal with bootstrap (can't find YDL to boot now)?
From: Bo Brinkman (brinkman@cs.princeton.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 19:44:24 MST


ftp.ibiblio.org is complete. I downloaded it and checked the md5sum. The
  iso is 677529600 bytes.

Marc Stergionis wrote:

> Sometime around 3:28 PM -0500 on 11/7/01, Bo Brinkman pounded out this
> ditty:
>
>> From Dan Burcaw of YDL:
>>
>> "The new fuji image and the new ramdisk.image.gz do not have that
>> problem. For people with the old iso, they should download the new
>> ramdisk, and use "hd-install""
>>
>> So maybe the easiest fix is to get the new installer ramdisk (or even
>> the new fuji iso (20011105) and re-install.
>
>
> The YDL site has a 256 or so megabyte 20011105 .iso, which I (stupidly?)
> downloaded. Of course after burning the image, the CD would not mount in
> Mac OS (all my other burns always have).
>
> The .iso at <ftp://phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov/pub/YellowDog/yellowdog-2.0/>
> appears to weigh in at 501MB, which I am downloading now (thank God for
> cable modems). Doesn't sound like CD-size though. Has anyone
> burned/gotten this image to work?
>
> Didn't see Nov. 5 .iso's at any other mirror.
>
> -ms

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