Subject: Re: Install Woes and WTF is "error of type -39?"
From: Joshua Gitlin (jnet@brandeis.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 12:46:59 MDT
Scott,
That sounds like a problem with the archive. Are you sure
that it is intact and not corrupted? Try to download it agaon... and
if not, email me the archive and I'll check it out.
-Josh Gitlin
>I'm trying to install YDL on a G3 I inherited (I'm the sysadmin of a Unix/NT
>shop...) from a graphic artist position that was eliminated. I know from
>nothing about Macs - and I don't particularly want to know anything about
>them (thus YDL...), but I'd like to get this still-capable system working in
>Unix.
>
>But....
>
>I've partitioned the disk (as MacOS standard, since the "HPS" filesystem
>asked-for in the installation guide is manifestly not one of the choices
>available when partitioning...), and the manual wants me to open the
>BootX_1.2-2.sea archive in the /install directory on the YDL installation
>CD. When I do this, this wretched Mac squeals:
>
>"The application program "BootX_1.2.2.sea" could not be opened, because an
>error of type -39 occurred." (Helpful stuff, this; I can see how the
>Macintosh got such a killer rep for being user friendly ... but I
>digress...)
>
>Hoping that the BootX_1.2.2.sit archive contained the same key files, I
>tried to open that, but the Stuffit program just flashes the screen and
>doesn't seem to create anything useful.
>
>What ignorance am I falling victim to?
>
>
>Scott K. Stafford
>scotts@together.net
>
>PGP public key available at:
>http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=scotts@together.net
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