Subject: RE: Install Woes and WTF is "error of type -39?"
From: Scott K. Stafford (scotts@together.net)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 13:24:03 MDT
Hmmm. I didn't download it, I'm working from the YDL installation CD. I
downloaded an updated file entitled, "BootX_1.2fc1.sit", and it displays the
same problem; Stuffit just seems to do ... nothing with it; a "nag" screen
comes up, I click on "OK," but then ... nothing happens.
I'll see if either of these can be opened via the Windoze versions of
Stuffit, and go from there...
So far, I'm not dazzled by YDL...
[Is there a linux disto for the G3 that completely bypasses anything and
everything Apple? One that just boots from a floppy or CD and lets me
forget that Apple even shares the same planet as myself?]
SKS
> That sounds like a problem with the archive. Are you sure
> that it is intact and not corrupted? Try to download it agaon... and
> if not, email me the archive and I'll check it out.
>
> -Josh Gitlin
>
>
> >I'm trying to install YDL on a G3 I inherited (I'm the sysadmin
> of a Unix/NT
> >shop...) from a graphic artist position that was eliminated. I know from
> >nothing about Macs - and I don't particularly want to know anything about
> >them (thus YDL...), but I'd like to get this still-capable
> system working in
> >Unix.
> >
> >But....
> >
> >I've partitioned the disk (as MacOS standard, since the "HPS" filesystem
> >asked-for in the installation guide is manifestly not one of the choices
> >available when partitioning...), and the manual wants me to open the
> >BootX_1.2-2.sea archive in the /install directory on the YDL installation
> >CD. When I do this, this wretched Mac squeals:
> >
> >"The application program "BootX_1.2.2.sea" could not be opened,
> because an
> >error of type -39 occurred." (Helpful stuff, this; I can see how the
> >Macintosh got such a killer rep for being user friendly ... but I
> >digress...)
> >
> >Hoping that the BootX_1.2.2.sit archive contained the same key files, I
> >tried to open that, but the Stuffit program just flashes the screen and
> >doesn't seem to create anything useful.
> >
> >What ignorance am I falling victim to?
> >
> >
> >Scott K. Stafford
> >scotts@together.net
> >
> >PGP public key available at:
> >http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=scotts@together.net
>
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