Re: new installation - Next step !

2001-04-12 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 09:02:24AM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Bruno Waes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 9:59 PM > Subject: Re: ne

Re: new installation - Next step !

2001-04-12 Thread Bruno Waes
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruno Waes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 9:59 PM Subject: Re: new installation - Next step ! > copy the root.bin file from the CD to somewhere on your hard d

Re: new installation - Next step !

2001-04-11 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 05:51:47PM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote: > ok, that is nice and good, but ... i havnt installed linux yet on this > machine and i dont find a way how to do it ... You can download bootx with a normal web browser from macos. Don't have a URL handy, but google turned it up last

Re: new installation - Next step !

2001-04-11 Thread Andrew Sharp
copy the root.bin file from the CD to somewhere on your hard disk, and specify that to BootX as the ramfs. make sure your CD is in the drive and you should be able to proceed from there. a Bruno Waes wrote: > > ok, i guess we are at a next level, i got BootX working (needed version 5.5 > of st

Re: new installation - Next step !

2001-04-11 Thread Bruno Waes
- Original Message - From: "David J. Roundy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 5:41 PM Subject: Re: new installation - Next step ! > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:09:27PM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote: > > > > but i still dont get it how i

Re: new installation - Next step !

2001-04-11 Thread David J. Roundy
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:09:27PM +0200, Bruno Waes wrote: > > but i still dont get it how i can boot an installation system with bootx ? You just set up the bootx extension, which runs at startup. You can configure it to by default boot to linux (after 10 seconds or whatever). So whenever you

Re: new installation - Next step !

2001-04-11 Thread Bruno Waes
ok, i guess we are at a next level, i got BootX working (needed version 5.5 of stuffit expander that works with my macos 7.5.3) with the vmlinux image i got from the cd, that i placed in the bootx kernels directory, and giving kernel options video=atyfb:vmode:5,cmode:8 i saw for the first time on