YDL 2.3 iMac Rev A - can't boot - HELP!!

[Longman, Bill]

> Ok. Follow your instructions:
> 
> 1. Boot from YDL CD. When asked about keyboard, pressed ctr-alt-F2.
> 
> 2. Get "Dayton Install>" prompt.
> 
> 3. Typed pdisk /dev/hda
> 
> 4. Get message:
> sh: pdisk: command not found.
> 
> Looking in a unix book (Complete Idiot's Guide) found "sh" 
> stand for The Bourne Shell.
> I then typed "env" as I understood from the book it will give 
> me the environment variables, 
> but get the following:
> 
> sh: env: command not found
> 
> Any clue? 

You're in another world when you boot from CD. The shell that's running then
is not the Bourne shell, but a "statically-linked" shell. That just means,
simplistically, that most of the commands are compiled into that program.

Try:

$ echo $PATH

to see what your PATH is.

>From the above, it looks like you can't find pdisk. You'll have to look for
it yourself in all the usual places (/sbin,/usr/sbin,/bin,/usr/bin). Then
you'll have to give the complete path a la:

/usr/sbin/pdisk /dev/hda