Re: Install Troubles on Daystar 604


Subject: Re: Install Troubles on Daystar 604
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 16:26:09 MST


The latest version of BootX is now 1.2, by the way. See
http://ppclinux.apple.com/~benh/

> I had a similar glitch when I was installing on a 7200. What version
> of the MacOS is installed on the Mac drive? I had to drop back to OS
> 8.1 to get the installation to work properly. It has something to do
> with the disk driver being incompatible with BootX.
>
> You may want to try and get hold of the latest version of BootX
> (1.1.3?) to try the install using that instead of the copy on the YDL
> CD.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> John Haffner
> ===================
>
> J. Walton Wrote:
>
> >I've got 3 drives, 1 for Mac OS, 1 for Linux (if I can ever install it), and
> >1 for our FTP files. I get as far as getting the control panel/extensions
> >installed and try BootX to boot into Linux. The screen goes black with a
> >"booting . . ." message, but doesn't get any further. A minute or so later
> >the machine reboots and I have the opportunity to try again.
>
>

Regards,
Dan

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