Install over old LinuxPPC system

[Bert Knabe]

Just to put a note of irony, the box I'm having so much trouble getting=20=

Linux on is a Starmax. I never had any trouble installing LinuxPPC on=20
it, either. Maybe YD doesn't like Starmax. ;)

Bert

On Wednesday, June 19, 2002, at 10:09  PM, Craig Green wrote:

> I have a running install of LinuxPPC2000. There is no MacOS on this=20
> box, it
> boots straight to Linux, using yaboot. I want to upgrade to YDL 2.2,=20=

> but, I
> have no MacOS to hit BootX.hqx. I don't want to reinstall MacOS, just=20=

> so I
> can install YDL. I want the CD install process to start, but it won't.=20=

> I've
> even bought the CD, thinking it would boot like the LinuxPPC ones do,=20=

> but no
> luck. What am I missing? Is there a shell script I can run to start=20
> BootX
> from within Linux instead of MacOS? The system is an old Starmax, and =
I=20
> can
> install my LinuxPPC disk on it with ease. But it's a limited install=20=

> and a
> real pain to add any new apps, or even to try to unpack the source=20
> files.
>
>
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