yellowdog-newbie digest, Vol 1 #641 - 12 msgs

[Chris Arleth]

My only experience is loading YDL 3 on a G4/1GHz machine... it booted 
right from the CD and graphical install was intuitive enough.
	That's not happening on this one.  I've installed bootX and I've 
dragged that ramdisk.image.gz file to the system folder, please note I've 
also followed the instructions for putting all bootX files (except the 
two that were to be put into the "extentions" and "control pannel" 
directories) into the "linux kernals" directory in the "System folder" 
directory (this included BootX 1.2.2 ReadMe, BootX FAQ, COPYING, and four 
folders: Linux Kernals, miBoot, Sources and Utilities.

>Your Mac is a Beige G3. And the Important bit of info with regard to  
>YDL is that its an Old World Mac. This means that you can't boot from  
>the YDL CD at all. Your on the right path with Boot X, but you a) need  
>to either partition your HD and reinstall MacOS on the second  
>partition. Or Install a second HD which you can dedicate to YDL. And b)  
>You need to get the Kernal file from your YDL CD-1 and drop it into  
>your system folder of Mac OS.
>    There's a great PDF of how to do all this on Terasoft's website..  
>read through it a few times paying attention to Old World Macs, and  
>you'll be booting YDL before you know it..... and thats when things can  
>get tricky ;-)  lol

	I can't understand it.  I followed the directs and I still can't 
boot from the CD to install it, and it still has that error message 
dialog box ("no suitable kernal present" or words to that effect).

	How do I make it boot up to the install CD?  I need to get it to 
boot up to the CD or else I need another way to run the installer.

	I've had two weeks of CSS360 (intro. to Unix), 18 August was the 
first day of this class, so I can barely write a shellscript and Dr. 
Seyfath is very knowledgable about intel architecture running 
Unix/Linux/and similar OSes, but he has no idea about Motorolla 
architecture except that it can run Unix/Linux and MacOS X is based on 
SCO Unix.

>Good Luck.

	(I'll need it) and Thanks In Advance
Chris
>
                 Alan.