Success anyhow -- mostly (was Re: "Guide to Installation" my foot!)

[Jason Stevens]

During the YDL installation, you should have encountered a screen which
allows you to configure the bootloader. At that point, you can add
another OS to the bootloader. If OS X was already installed, it should
have appeared as an available option. At this point, you can either play
with your boot options from within YDL to add an option to boot into OS
X at system startup, or, preferably, install and run MOL OSX. To do
that, just open a terminal as root and type "molvconfig." Carefully
choose your display type from those you want to probe, and set up the
appropriate display. When that's done, and you're still logged in as
root, type "install mol --osx" in a terminal. It will install. Next,
you'll need to run MOL by typing "startmol --osx" (you don't need to be
root at this point). OS X will launch in another window with a MOL
installer icon on in the Finder. You need to run the installer, which
adds ethernet and audio support for running OS X within Linux. Each
subsequent time you start MOL, you'll be able to connect to the Internet
from OS X right on your YDL desktop. Finally, you'll probably discover
that OS X is just dead weight on your system and you'll abandon it in
favor of YDL. I'm hard pressed to think of something that OS X does that
YDL does not.

On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 15:18, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 25 May 2003, I, Beartooth wrote:
> 
> > 	All right, I bought the CDs, intending to install over the top
> > of 2.3 -- and sacrifice everything already there <gnash, grate,
> > snarl>,
> 	(snip!)
> > 	So I decide to try to go ahead -- after all, they brag about how
> > easy it is, and how much like RH9 (which I have just installed on my
> > desktop).
> 	(snip!)
> > ... you do eventually get to "Welcome to Yellow Dog Linux" -- which
> > tells you yet again to read the fine but non-extant Guide ...
> > 
> > 	[To Be Continued -- stay tuned]
> 
> 	Turns out they do themselves an injustice: the install process
> is clearer and easier than RH8, and it avoided or prevented one of the
> two gotchas I encountered with that: my monitor seems to be identified 
> and configured correctly. 
> 
> 	But the other gotcha seems to be here too: now it doesn't want
> me to boot into the old part. I tell it x, and it asks me again -- very
> quickly, and still in tiny print -- saying something about "stage 1."  
> Then, depending whether or not I keep hitting x, it either boots YDL
> anyway, or goes into a blank white screen that just sits there.
> 
> 	The only reason I'm keeping OSX is for the occasional nasty case 
> of an ISP I can't make YDL connect to; it may turn out that I don't need 
> it any more, and if not I certainly won't miss it. If I really don't, 
> I'll gladly re-install to let 3.0 have the whole 35GB.
> 
> 	But meanwhile it's my backup access to the Net: how do I get to
> it??