On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:26:17PM +0100, Jim Hague wrote: > I'm attempting to turn a comprehensively redundant Quadra 700 into something > useful. > > The beast has 20Mb RAM, and an external 1Gb 'd2' (that's what it says on the > front) disc in addition to the internal 40Mb drive. > > I've made a root and a swap partition on the external disc. > > Installing Woody via Penguin 1.9 is not going well, though. Frequently the > boot > gets stuck at video initialisation, showing the b/w penguin and 'ABCDEFGHIJ'. > Other times it boots properly and installation begins, only to run into the > sand in a variety of ways, often involving one of several kernel panics > (dereferencing NULL pointer, Freeing swap cache etc.) Otherwise files are > reported as corrupt after downloading, or it just freezes up. > > I see the Quadra 700 is on the hardware list as working fine. MacOS doesn't > seem to have any trouble working properly.
These are the same problems I have run into with my Quadra 650 with external hard drive install. It's basically unusable. I hope someone has a clue. I was thinking maybe it was my memory wasn't up to speed or that Linux is not happy with the external drive. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
