Need help adding an entry to yaboot

[Clinton MacDonald]

Mr. Parker:

On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 02:41  PM, Bo Parker wrote:
> Ah-ha! Thanks for the heads-up. I appreciate it.

You are quite welcome! Actually, I *tried* to post the response to the  
Yellow Dog mailing list yesterday, but for some reason, none of my  
posts have showed up even today.

> I didn't think I had done anything wrong, but my OS X boot disk went  
> kablooie anyway.

No, you had done nothing wrong. I only wish that the Yellow Dog folks  
would highlight this *frequently* asked question more prominently on  
their Web site or in their literature (now that you know about it, you  
will see that it comes up at least once a week in the mailing lists).

> Fortunately I keep my backups very current,

What an intelligent man!

> I've been messing with fink, x11, kde, xmms, etc., in OS X for about a  
> year, so I'm used to things going weird/going wrong/not working right  
> ;)

I played briefly with fink on Mac OS X, but I really haven't had enough  
time to experiment. I am looking forward to the day Apple integrates  
kde or Gnome more fully with the Aqua environment. Won't that be fun!

> Now the next challenge is to figure out how mount my 200 MB HFS  
> partition in YDL.

That is less difficult than it might seem. Look in the YDL mailing list  
archives for when *I* asked this question:

<http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-newbie/2003- 
August/004254.html>

And follow that thread for the wonderful answers I got from Bill  
Longman:

<http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-newbie/2003- 
August/004257.html>
<http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-newbie/2003- 
August/004258.html>

Good luck!

Best wishes,
Clint

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT  
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