Weird trouble installing YDL 3.0 on a 3400c

[Rick Thomas]

You can get the MacOs partition down to under 50 MB using BootX as
described in 

   http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003-April/006928.html

You'll need a zip drive.

Or, for a truly minimal boot partition, you can use "miboot" as
discussed recently in great detail on this list.

Rick

Ted Lemon wrote:
> 
> > I had this exact problem on my 3400c. Try the 2.2 kernel for the first
> > ...
> 
> Wow, thanks!   I was able to pare my MacOS 9 partition down to about
> 200 megabytes - I just didn't install anything from Apple Remote Access
> down.   I think that NetBSD boots directly off the hard disk on the
> 3400, so maybe if you're feeling adventurous you could see what they
> did.   You'd probably have to take their booter and combine it with
> yaboot, since NetBSD uses UFS and Linux uses ext?fs, but it probably
> wouldn't be very hard.
> 
> I'd do this myself except that as soon as I get the 3400c working I'm
> going to be giving it to a student.   :'}
> 
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