Re: OS 9 Driver Question (Was Please Help with G4 Install)


Subject: Re: OS 9 Driver Question (Was Please Help with G4 Install)
From: Andrew Dacey (frugal@hfx.eastlink.ca)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 11:48:25 MST


My mileage (yours may vary); I installed OS 9 awhile ago. Because of all
 the horror stories I had heard about not being able to boot into linux
afterwards (I think more on the linuxppc lists), I was very careful not
to update my disk drivers. However, during the install it wanted to
overwrite a folder with a file of the same name (I think it was disk
copy, I had it in a folder called "disk copy" and that was the same
place the installer wanted to put the version of disk copy) so it
stopped the install. I had to go and get rid of the folder and start
over. This time I forgot to turn off update disk driver (I had a heavily
customized install going so I had a lot of options to remember). I
realised this as it was going through but it was too late (updates the
drivers right at the beginning). However, I've had no problems booting
into linux after this update. The only things I can figure are:

1. Most of the problems I read about were on the Linuxppc list and this
is just one of the many ways that ydl is superior.

2. I have 2 drives (the standard 4gb from my G3 and a 6.4gb I added). My
linux stuff is all on the 6.4gb drive but I boot the MacOS off of my 4gb
drive. Perhaps the installer only updates the drivers for the drive that
contains the partition your installing to.

Anyways, I'm not complaining because it works for me.

Frugal

Sean Bittinger wrote:
>
> As far as I know it's an ATA/OS 9 problem, I know it happened on my G3. I
> think your SCSI should be ok. As long as you have OS 9 on a drive (you
> still need Mac OS or else the hardware won't start up) you shouldn't need OS
> 9 on both, you may want to check around on this though (read the install
> binder, and check YDL's website, too).



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