First - Hello to everyone on the list! I am new (as you well may have
gathered) and will probably not be a very active person on the list
simply because I work in the space industry and get sent everywhere to
do everything. So I'm not home a lot and I really do not have a lot of
time to call my own. That said though - HI! :-)
Ok, some general ramblings:
- I've had to re-install YDL several times because of either
mistakes I've made or mistakes YDL has made. I've noticed that there
are some problems with the installer. These are:
- If you attempt to re-install due to an error, YDL's installer
dies when it attempts to re-install selinux.
- You usually have to completely wipe out what was there and
re-install everything because YDL, if it hits an error (such as a file
already exists) it just dies. Not always mind you, but in one of the
billions of possible combinations that are possible when doing an
installation. So, sorry - but I can't give specifics. Just that I
selected CUSTOM and after I was through YDL just died. I wound up
reformatting the hard drive and re-installing YDL.
- When you boot from the YDL CD and you are trying to re-install
the yaboot stuff (via the instructions on the web page for v4.01) it:
- Always seems to put "2,/vmlinux" after anything you type in
which makes it impossible to put in "cd-linux root=/dev/hdXX" because
it always becomes "cd-linux root=/dev/hdXX2,/vmlinux" which it then
complains about.
Some good things:
- YDL runs A LOT FASTER than OS X on my laptop. In fact, I've
taken OS X off of my system completely because I continued to be
frustrated by some of the just plain slow things that were happening on
my system. Basically, I tried to run Apache under OS X and found that,
just like OS 7->9 if you ran a web server under it the entire thing
just bogged down. Under YDL though, there isn't any slow down. No lag
- nothing but extremely quick response.
- I have been saying this for the last couple of years - why
doesn't Apple just dump OS X and go with Linux? OS X is (if I remember
correctly) Copeland revisited. If Apple would just dump all of their
software endeavors OS wise, run one of the Mac emulators that allow OS
7->9 to run native, and just use Linux I think they'd be way out
ahead of the rest of the world again. After all, look at IBM, HP,
etc....they have realized that it takes less time to develop what they
need if they just go with a world wide development package. You also
have far better support because of the hundreds of thousands of people
who can either report bugs or work on them.
Anyway! Gotta go but again - hi to everyone and if anyone has an
answer for #2 above I'd appreciate hearing from you. I haven't
reformatted everything yet but I can't get YDL to come back up because
a friend inadvertantly reset the startup disk via Mac OS 9. So my main
problem presently is just to get yaboot to boot back up the linux
partition.
Later!
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