> I recently received oldish G3 PowerBook 466Mhz, and since I've never been a > Mac person at all I thought I'd give Mandrake 8.2 a go. However not being a
> I've also tried the BootX installation but unpacking > Mandrake_Linux_Install.sit gave me "type -39 error" That machine is old-world and yaboot will NOT work [hence Mandrake-CD is not bootable]. BootX is the only chance (well miboot or quik but they are not supported in Mandrake). Just follow the instructions for typing in the arguments to BootX -- use the vmlinux-2.2 kernel, options->ramdisk->install-2.2-ramdisk etc. There is a webpage + an older copy on the CD but I am short on details cos I am at a conference. My Wallstreet II works fine this way. In MacOS use apple profiler to check which machine you have. The bootX script that you tried requires applescript to run -- check if that is installed -- it is on the MacOS CD. Q.
