G3 Desktop - no boot to CD
Eric Dunbar
eric.dunbar at gmail.com
Sun Jan 30 11:33:59 MST 2005
> SO where IS BOOTX? BootX was provided with YDL 3 and it resided on the 1st CD
> disk or Install CD number 1, but YDL 3 is not being sold any longer. There ARE
> however YDL mirrors which still care YDL 3 and it is there you should look.
>
> You may find you may have to burn the entire YDL 3 Install CD disk #1 just to
> get at BootX. I hope not, but you know how to do that so that should not be a
> problem. On the other hand, you may be fortunate to find a mirror with an
> uncompressed form of BootX. You may also find something called BootX.sea,
You don't have to do that -- you can mount the ISO (now, whether the
HFS filesystem on the ISO will mount in an i86 Linux is a different
question)
>if
> you do. Download it. Copy it onto the MacOS desktop and double click upon it.
> The file will open itself up after that. Look for that BootX Control Panel and
> Extension file. That's all you really need from that self-extracting file.
> Refer to the other instructions provided on the above link regarding getting
> into YDL 4 using BootX.
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