Subject: RE: Install Woes and WTF is "error of type -39?"
From: Pete Peters (ppeters@broadcastzone.com)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 14:13:30 MDT
Are you familiar w/ the phrase "you can catch more bees w/ honey than
vinegar?" For starters, drop the anti-Mac attitude. This list is not a
forum for that crap, plus you're outnumbered. We're here to help each other
successfully run Linux on our Macs.
Next, it would help to know what model Mac you have, hard drive or drives,
and version Mac OS. I'm not familiar w/ the G3's, but I think you may need
to use yaboot instead of BootX. Hopefully, someone else can take over from
here.
Btw, I'm assuming you meant HFS filesystem, not HPS. And, yes, the MacOS
error messages are not one of its endearing features, but Windows has plenty
of useless ones also.
Pete
> ----------
> From: Scott K. Stafford
> Reply To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 11:30 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Install Woes and WTF is "error of type -39?"
>
>
> 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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