Subject: RE: Install Woes and WTF is "error of type -39?"
From: Andrew Le (ale1@msi-world.com)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 10:06:03 MDT
I had this same problem.
WHat you need to do is open up the latest Stuffit application (version 5.0?)
itself.
Then from File -> Open, pick this "BootX_1.2.2.sea" as the file to open
(yes, this seems conter-intuitivie since it's a self-extracting archive)...
Then unstuff...
That's it and it worked for me...
Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott K. Stafford [mailto:scotts@together.net]
> 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@t
ogether.net
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