On 8.1, I seem to remember you could stick the cd in a windoze machine and the docs pop up in a browser. Its in the root of the cd as index.htm
BillK On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 18:07, Rick Thomas wrote: > I found my problem. After booting the "rescue" from the CD, and using it > to reading the "yaboot" man page (where it repeatedly pointed out that the > Apple_Boot "bootstrap" partition should _not_ be mounted on the /boot mount > point) I realized that I should not have made a mountpoint (especially not > /boot) for the bootstrap partition. > > Once I cleared that up, everything went swimmingly. > > Question: There does not seem to be any way of reading the Mandrake Linux > man pages except by successfully getting it up and running on a computer. > It would be nice if they were available as PDF's or something from the > MandrakeLinux web site... > > Has this already been done and I'm just too blind to find it? > > Enjoy! > > Rick > > Rick Thomas wrote: > > > I've installed Mandrake Linux PPC 8.2beta2 on my Mac TiBook. > > > > When I attempt to start up it refuses to boot the newly installed > > Linux. Here's what happens: > > > > 1) I startup with the chime, goes into the open-firmware multi-os > > program tasks whether I want to boot from the CD, MacOS, Linux, or > > Open-Firmware. I answer "l" for Linux (all the other options work fine, > > "l" is the only one that has problems) > > > > 2) It goes into the "welcome to... ... boot:" dialog. If I hit tab I > > get two options, one is "linux", the other is "rescue" or something like > > that. I type "linux" or hit the C/R key. > > > > 3) It says "hd:10/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk: Unknown or corrupt filesystem" > > > > Now, /dev/hda10 is the "Apple_Boot" partition that I configured for > > "/boot". It's 80MB in size. I tried it with 1MB and the installation > > partition section died with a "premature eof", presumably trying to > > write stuff to the /boot partition. > > > > I can do a rescue boot from the CD, and all the partitions look OK. The > > /boot partition has a file called vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk > > > > Anybody got any clues? > > > > Rick > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > ---- > > This message has been 'sanitized'. This means that potentially > dangerous content has been rewritten or removed. The following > log describes which actions were taken. > > Sanitizer (start="1017656015"): > Part (pos="2567"): > SanitizeFile (filename="unnamed.txt", mimetype="text/plain"): > Match (rule="2"): > Enforced policy: accept > > Part (pos="4728"): > SanitizeFile (filename="message.footer", mimetype="text/plain"): > Match (rule="default"): > Enforced policy: defang > > Replaced mime type with: application/DEFANGED-1685 > Replaced file name with: message_footer.DEFANGED-1685 > > Total modifications so far: 1 > > > Anomy 0.0.0 : Sanitizer.pm > $Id: Sanitizer.pm,v 1.54 2002/02/15 16:59:07 bre Exp $
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