Subject: RE: Install Woes and WTF is "error of type -39?"
From: Joshua Gitlin (jnet@brandeis.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 13:30:48 MDT
Well, first don't get mad at yellowdog -- you are experiencing
probles with stuffir =P. In fact, I wouldn't get mad at mac,
either... but w/e. Send me the archive and I will check it out and
send it back.
-Josh
>Hmmm. I didn't download it, I'm working from the YDL installation CD. I
>downloaded an updated file entitled, "BootX_1.2fc1.sit", and it displays the
>same problem; Stuffit just seems to do ... nothing with it; a "nag" screen
>comes up, I click on "OK," but then ... nothing happens.
>
>I'll see if either of these can be opened via the Windoze versions of
>Stuffit, and go from there...
>
>So far, I'm not dazzled by YDL...
>
>[Is there a linux disto for the G3 that completely bypasses anything and
>everything Apple? One that just boots from a floppy or CD and lets me
>forget that Apple even shares the same planet as myself?]
>
>SKS
>
>> 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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