Re: Questions about install procedure
On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Hahn Rossman wrote:
> I'm attempting install on a Beige G3 desktop with an xrl8 466mhz cpu.
> It has an IDE drive, a scsi-2 drive, and a ultra2W on a pci
> controller. I've been trying to use BootX, which cant find the
> livefilesysytem and then drops me into the Redhat installer which
> can't find the packages to install. I have this problem with both the
> downloaded files from ftp.us.debian.org and also from the LinuxPPC
> 1999 cd I have. Does any of this have to do with the fact that my cd
> is not scsi? And if so how do I adjust either BootX or whatever to
> allow the installer to recognize the cd drive (ATAPI)? Thanks for the
> various replies. Hahn Rossman
What version of BootX are you running? I had the same problem on a G3
Powerbook running MacOS 9. The nearest I can figure, BootX 1.1.3 is
incompatible with MacOS 9 and/or systems w/ ATA/IDE disks. I got BootX
1.2b3 and things worked fine.
J.
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