YDL4 (was Re: unable to install Klash...)

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Bill:

Just for clarity:  BootX is provided only as part of YDL 2 or YDL 3/3.0.1.

If you choose to use your old Mac you will have to use BootX from within 
OS Classic or OS 9 or earlier (I think the Mac 8500 came with OS 7) -- 
in any case BootX was designed to work as a Control Panel within the 
Control Panels section of the System Folder in the Classic environment.  
BootX is not designed for and will not function with OS X.  The function 
of BootX is so that (when BootX is properly set up and functioning) when 
the Mac boots up instead of immediately going into the Mac OS 
environment -- instead you are provided with an option appearing on the 
screen allowing you to choose between booting into YDL or booting into 
the Mac OS. 

BootX, I believe, the preferred tool (but not the only tool) allowing a 
user to boot into YDL from the Mac Classic environment.  I don't recall 
the other tool and frankly never used it anyway. 
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Bill Perrotta wrote:
> in ydl4 install
> does setting bootx to use new kernel and ramdisk mean just checking 
> the box to use ram disk or is there another file i must edit?
>
> */Paul Higgins <higg0008 at tc.umn.edu>/* wrote:
>
>     On Friday 27 October 2006 22:11, Norberto Quintanar wrote:
>     > 4.0, not 4.1. There is a way to do it using YUM, but it's NOT for
>     > the faint of heart.
>
>     Well, I'm not feeling too faint-hearted these days : ) so I'd
>     certainly be
>     interested in any info or links you'd care to pass along. I assume
>     that you
>     need to install 4.0 and then upgrade to 4.1? I also assume there's
>     a ton of
>     dependency hell? And how do you get yum to jump entire versions of
>     YDL (i.e.
>     from 4.0 to 4.0.1)? I also wonder if using something like Synaptic
>     (a tool
>     from Debian which you can install on YDL) would make this easier.
>     I've
>     certainly found Synaptic a good addition to yum and use it all the
>     time.
>
>     I hate to say this once again, but the latest release of Debian
>     (3.1r3) will
>     *still* run on Old World just fine (but probably rather slowly). I
>     haven't
>     tried it yet on PPC, though, but I do use Debian on my x86 machine
>     at work.
>     The documentation is nearly the same for x86 and PPC; the main
>     difference is
>     the installation of a PPC bootloader, e.g. BootX. Just make sure you
>     download and print out the install manual, and do yourself a favor
>     and get
>     the "Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible" at a bookstore.
>
>     -PRH
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