On 23-Oct-2002 Chris Tillman wrote: > 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.
Greger Olson pointed me at the linux-mac68k mailing list. In the archives I found a note from Tim Starr suggesting that booting with MacOS extensions off was a good idea. For me, it was a damm fine idea. My Quadra is now stable, happily installed and churning its way slowly through an apt-get. -- Jim Hague - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Play) Never trust a computer you can't lift.
