Hi All, Just installed, yet not sure that I haven't messed it big. What files shall go into HFS boot partition for this old world machine? I found a detailed post from Mr Bradley Smith in archives, but he deals with a newer hardware. I chose minimal installation and something is wrong with man. /usr/shared and $MANPATH seem to be OK. Just a side-note: for $50 they could produce less confusing manual, information is scattered too widely and is unstructured. Still, it's a lot of work in a relatively short period of time and this is one of few Unix flavours that can be installed on my old box. Best, Yuri K Vancouver, WA, USA
Hi Yuri, On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:30:13PM +0000, Yuri K wrote:
Hi All,
Just installed, yet not sure that I haven't messed it big. What files shall go into HFS boot partition for this old world machine? I found a detailed post from Mr Bradley Smith in archives, but he deals with a newer hardware.
I also have a 7200 that's a real workhorse now that it runs Linux! Unfortunately, I didn't install SuSE on it (it was turned into a Linux box even before SuSE had a PPC port), but I did install another distro...for that distribution, I have a minimal MacOS installed on one of the partitions, along with BootX. This works just fine.
I chose minimal installation and something is wrong with man. /usr/shared and $MANPATH seem to be OK.
Hmmm...can't help you here.
Just a side-note: for $50 they could produce less confusing manual, information is scattered too widely and is unstructured. Still, it's a lot of work in a relatively short period of time and this is one of few Unix flavours that can be installed on my old box.
I actually thought the manual was excellent...really, the clearest that I've ever seen for any distribution. Clearly, YMMV... good luck, bob -- ......................................... PhD Candidate, Development Soc, Cornell U. [e] bob@rjtorres.net [www] www.rjtorres.net [aim] djbobyt [icq] 95880740 [advice] assume nothing
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:30:13PM +0000, Yuri K wrote:
Hi All,
Just installed, yet not sure that I haven't messed it big. What files shall go into HFS boot partition for this old world machine? I found a detailed post from Mr Bradley Smith in archives, but he deals with a newer hardware.
You need the BootX application and a kernel on your boot partition. Alternatively, put the BootX extension and kernel into your system folder (extensions folder). Just stick to chapter 4.1 of the manual, it's all described there.
I chose minimal installation and something is wrong with man. /usr/shared and $MANPATH seem to be OK.
Haven't heard of any problems here, maybe you can give us more details what "something" means?
Just a side-note: for $50 they could produce less confusing manual, information is scattered too widely and is unstructured. Still, it's a lot of work in a relatively short period of time and this is one of few Unix flavours that can be installed on my old box.
Can you provide any specific remarks, examples, or suggestions?
Best, Yuri K
Vancouver, WA, USA
Peter -- Peter Poeml poeml@suse.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day...
Hello Peter, Monday, July 02, 2001, 08:26:42(UTC), Ñèæó ÿ, ñìîòðþ òåëåâèçîð, êîâûðÿþñü ãâîçäåì â óõå, âäðóã çâóê ïðîïàë that's because you wrote: PP> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:30:13PM +0000, Yuri K wrote:
Hi All,
Just installed, yet not sure that I haven't messed it big. What files shall go into HFS boot partition for this old world machine? I found a detailed post from Mr Bradley Smith in archives, but he deals with a newer hardware.
PP> You need the BootX application and a kernel on your boot partition. PP> Alternatively, put the BootX extension and kernel into your system PP> folder (extensions folder). Just stick to chapter 4.1 of the manual, PP> it's all described there. So, the same kernel goes into both HFS boot volume and the working active system folder? Or is it an alias only. That's where I was not certain. Thank you very much for your reply.
I chose minimal installation and something is wrong with man. /usr/shared and $MANPATH seem to be OK.
It tells me there is no such file. I tried info too. I believe it's something very simple and obvious, i did not even paid much attention. PP> Haven't heard of any problems here, maybe you can give us more details PP> what "something" means?
Just a side-note: for $50 they could produce less confusing manual, information is scattered too widely and is unstructured. Still, it's a lot of work in a relatively short period of time and this is one of few Unix flavours that can be installed on my old box.
PP> Can you provide any specific remarks, examples, or suggestions? If it were as laconic as your reply, it would be even better than it is now. I apologise for my rant, that's my first foray with Linux at all. I guess, I got spoiled by the quality of OpenBSD docs, time to grow up ;). I like the way SuSE made the PPC port. I haven't seen the big installation though, I opted for the minimal which takes humongous 200 MB. Thank you again for your help. -- Best regards, Yuri mailto:yuri_ko@mac.com
On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:59:25AM +0000, Yuri K wrote:
Hello Peter,
Monday, July 02, 2001, 08:26:42(UTC), Ñèæó ÿ, ñìîòðþ òåëåâèçîð, êîâûðÿþñü ãâîçäåì â óõå, âäðóã çâóê ïðîïàë that's because you wrote:
PP> On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:30:13PM +0000, Yuri K wrote:
Hi All,
Just installed, yet not sure that I haven't messed it big. What files shall go into HFS boot partition for this old world machine? I found a detailed post from Mr Bradley Smith in archives, but he deals with a newer hardware.
PP> You need the BootX application and a kernel on your boot partition. PP> Alternatively, put the BootX extension and kernel into your system PP> folder (extensions folder). Just stick to chapter 4.1 of the manual, PP> it's all described there.
So, the same kernel goes into both HFS boot volume and the working active system folder? Or is it an alias only. That's where I was not certain. Thank you very much for your reply.
If you need only one kernel, it's easy: just put it into the System Folder as 'vmlinux'. ``However, the system extension will not find your kernel easily if it is stored in another volume. In this case, create an alias of the kernel \programm{vmlinux} and store it in the active system folder. Enter the exact name of \path{vmlinux}. Furthermore, you can save an alias of the folder \programm{Linux kernel} in the system folder if you wish to use multiple kernels.''
I chose minimal installation and something is wrong with man. /usr/shared and $MANPATH seem to be OK.
It tells me there is no such file. I tried info too. I believe it's something very simple and obvious, i did not even paid much attention.
Try to run SuSEconfig, and maybe 'man -d bash' Generally, everything you need to view man pages is also in the minimal selection. Peter -- Peter Poeml poeml@suse.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day...
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