On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:13:17PM -0500, Dave Germiquet wrote: > > Here are a few questions. > > First of all I am trying to install linux on a MAC LC 475, HD 250, Ram 32 > MBS, vram 512. The macintosh parition is 30 mbs, the swap is 40, and the > linux is 180. I am aware of that this machine does not have a floating > point unit and may have a processor that the emulation does not work. > > I am encouraged to try this because we are planning to give these > comptuers away to people who cannot afford computers and it says it is > doable on the machine status web page. > > Here > is the problem, i first tried installing woody and it crashed right at the > very end when it was setting the base file up (it downloaded without a > problem, extracted without a problem, however it stopped in the middle of > the setting up process. I > did a manual running the file, and it said missing file_utils package or > something. So I gave up on that distrubution (I tried 2 differnet ftp > sites) > > I then tried potato, everything went ok until the initial boot , it booted > but didnt run the dpkg-reconfigure base-config. I figured this out after > looking at the intitab and saw what it was running. The first screen > frooze, with it saying respawning too fast waiting five minuts. I hit > alt-f2 > to switch screens > and it gave me alogin prompt i tried logging in and using the > dpkg-configure base-config and it said BUS error, then everytime after > that segmentation fault. I have many LC 475'2 and so far the two i tried > said the same thing. How do I know if my LC 475 has the floating point > bug or if this is the reason why it is crashing. Any hints or tips are > welcome. > How can I get X windows to work, because I am aware that using X windows > with ICEWM is smaller then kde, and I was thinking of using that. > > Will the Centris 610 work? would you know? I will be trying that next.
These problems sound like the kind of crap I was seeing before I learned that you _must_ boot MacOS without extensions (hold the shift key while booting), before launching the Penguin application. Did you do that? I just added a blurb in the manual about it last week. -- *----------------------------------------------------------------* | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To HAVE, GIVE all TO all (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
