Subject: Re: HELLO!!! IS ANYONE THERE?! (was: image not found... try again)
From: Jeremy Parsons (jparsons@buckeye-express.com)
Date: Sun Aug 05 2001 - 20:04:17 MDT
I second that!!! Joe (Dork Ass). I've seen many a list or group fail
because the people thought they were to good to answer some peoples
questions or didn't want to deal with even the most stupid basic questions.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elliott" <kilowatt@cinci.rr.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: HELLO!!! IS ANYONE THERE?! (was: image not found... try again)
> Hey you fucking ass, Joe, email groups like this one keep linux alive.
> Those people who you called an ass are not even sure if the email made
> it onto the list.
> Sure, we are not paid to help anyone, we are here because we like it.
> Go ahead, flame me. I expect it for defending a newbie.
> As soon as I saw Mike's email, I knew someone would jump on him. Its
> just typical of these groups.
>
> As for the helpfull people on this list, thanks for all the help you
> have given so many people, for free. It really sets us apart from
> the typical fee-based tech support.
>
> Joe wrote:
>
> > Okay, ass. It's not like there's someone on this list making sure
> > everyone's question goes answered so your feelings don't get hurt. A
> > mailing list isn't a place where people are paid to help you.
> >
> > With that having been said...your question is extremely vague. The idea
of
> > yaboot is that, like lilo on the PC side, it's just a bootloader. When
you
> > install it uses the ramdisk for the installer...blahblahblah. You have
to
> > set up the yaboot.conf file so that it finds the right partition that
you've
> > installed your linux stuff on so your computer can boot into linux. If
you
> > give us more information we might be able to help you more.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > on 8/5/01 3:31 PM, Mike & Tracy Holt at res04d8w@gte.net wrote:
> >
> >> This is the third time I've sent this message... could someone at least
> >> acknowledge that you got the message?!?! This may seem
inconsequential,
> >> but I am not a mac person and I don't know the ins and outs of the mac
> >> system. If you don't understand my question, please ask for more info,
> >> but please say something, anything would help.
> >>
> >> Thanks, Mike
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mike & Tracy Holt [mailto:res04d8w@gte.net]
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:36 PM
> >> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> >> Subject: image not found... try again
> >>
> >>
> >> I've just done a fresh install of ydl 2.0 on a blue and white imac
> >> 233MHz proc using yaboot. I've got one hdd that I'm using to dual boot
> >> mac os 9.1 and ydl. Mac OS boots just fine now, but I get the message
> >> 'image not found... try again' when I try to boot into linux. I
> >> currently have experience with several versions of pc based linux but
> >> I'm fairly new to apple computers in general. I've tried searching the
> >> archives of this list to no avail, can someone guide me in the right
> >> direction?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!!
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
>
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