Hey Seth... you TV Star... 2 Questions for the GURU

[Harald Sundt]

Title: Hey Seth... you TV Star... 2 Questions for the GURU

Great Cogent Summation on TV. You photograph flatteringly.

I downloaded vmlinux (v22.12-990904) into my MacOS System folder on my main hard drive and have a swap and root partition set up on my second hard drive:

QUOTE:

This app uses the SIOUX console library
Choose 'Quit' from the file menu to quit.

Use MkLinux style disk names (i.e. /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.).

Top level command (? for help): ?
Notes:
  Base and length fields are blocks, which are 512 bytes long.
  The name of a partition is descriptive text.

Commands are:
  h    print help
  v    print the version number and release date
  l    list device's map
  L    list all devices' maps
  e    edit device's map
  r    toggle readonly flag
  q    quit the program
Top level command (? for help): L
/dev/sda
   #:                 type name                length   base    ( size )
   1:  Apple_partition_map Apple                   63 @ 1     
   2:       Apple_Driver43 Macintosh               32 @ 64    
   3:            Apple_HFS MacOS               432000 @ 96      (210.9M)

   4:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Swap                270000 @ 432096  (131.8M)
   5:      Apple_UNIX_SVR2 A/UX Root          1800000 @ 702096  (878.9M)
   6:           Apple_Free Extra                 1776 @ 2502096

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=2503871
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 19, type=0x1

pdisk: can't open file '/dev/sdb'
pdisk: can't open file '/dev/sdc'
pdisk: can't open file '/dev/sdd'

pdisk: can't open file '/dev/sde'

pdisk: can't open file '/dev/sdf'
/dev/sdg

   #:                 type name                length   base    ( size )
   1:  Apple_partition_map Apple                   63 @ 1     
   2:       Apple_Driver43 Macintosh               54 @ 64    
   3:       Apple_Driver43 Macintosh               74 @ 118   
   4:        Apple_Patches Patch Partition        512 @ 192   
   5:            Apple_HFS untitled           1422646 @ 704     (694.7M)
   6:           Apple_Free Extra                   10 @ 1423350

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=1423359
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 21, type=0x1
2: @ 118 for 32, type=0xffff

:UNQUOTE

Now I used BootX to try to launch Linux, and of course it fails cause I have no file system yet. But the Kernel finds everything before panicking:

BUT:

Should my Unix Partitions be ef2 or Apple_UNIX_SVR2?

And: Can I just down load a mini file system to copy into my root partion?

Or do I need a distribution to have BootX insert into a "ramdisk.image.gz"? I guess from there the distribution install makes the file system.

Anything else? Can you burn me a distribution by Thursday?

Thanks

Hal

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