Re: Quick questions on Kernals


Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:14:32 -0600 (MDT)


On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Byron Barker wrote:

> >> >> The kernal I wish to boot from must be in my MacOS system folder, right?
> >> >
> >> >kernel-pmac*.rpm installs a vmlinux to your /boot directory. Copy this to
> >> >the MacOS system folder.
> >> But you need to have a hfs partition to do the copy... I guess another
> >> option is to ftp the vmlinux to another machine and then ftp it back in
> >> macos?
> >
> >RIght. That would work fine.
> >
> Maybe I'm missing something here, yes, I'm a newbie, but doesn't the
> vmlinux file have to be in the sys folder on a hfs partition and that a
> hfs+ partition will not work for booting?

That's exactly right.

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> byron
>
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> >> Andrew
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> >Dan
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Dan

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