Subject: Re: smaller ramdisk
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Fri Aug 20 1999 - 14:17:01 MDT
We'll have some RS/6000 stuff up today :)
>
> Ah...um well, ur....no I didn't. I didn't know I needed to do that.
> I'll wait
> patiently for the kernel. When it does become available, will you let
> me know
> what I'll need to do to make the diskette bootable? I'm feeling pretty
> helpless
> and frustrated right now in this matter. Thanks...
>
> Mike Rutherford
> RTP, NC
>
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Mike Rutherford wrote:
> >
> > > Dan -
> > >
> > > I tried using the smaller ramdisk image file today on an
> > > rs6000/p43/model 150 box. I'm not real sure I did this right, but
> > > reading some other posts, I copied the gz file to diskette and tried:
> > >
> > > - boot while holding F8
> > > - at '>' prompt, typing: setenv boot-device floppy:\zimage
> > > - after above, typing: boot
> > >
> > > The system chews on the diskette for a while but I eventually end up
> > > with an error:
> > >
> > > unrecognized Client Program formatstate not valid
> > >
> > > Do you, or anybody know what I'm doing wrong here?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mike Rutherford
> > > Raleigh NC
> > >
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > Yellow Dog Linux for Apple G3 and PowerPC
> > email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
> > website: http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
>
Dan
Yellow Dog Linux for Apple G3 and PowerPC
email: dburcaw@yellowdoglinux.com
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