On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 07:48:52PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 1 Mar, this message from Syd Bauman echoed through cyberspace: > > I finally got a working monitor (an Apple Multiple Scan 1705 Display) > > attached to the PowerComputing PowerTower Pro 225. > > According to > http://www.everymac.com/systems/powercc/powertower_pro/powertower_pro225.html > that's a 9600 clone (6 PCI slots) with an IMS video card. > > > So I went ahead > > and installed Debian "Woody" 3.0, just as I've done several times > > before on several machines (including this one). > > Which kernel did you install? I recommend a 2.4 kernel; but I'm not sure > what the Debian powermac 2.4 kernel is named in the installer... > Somebody help me out :-). A 2.2 kernel, the default, will not recognize > all your PCI slots.
The 2.4 kernel is in the new-powermac archive folder. Note, it is not possible to install it with a floppy (it doesn't fit) - you have to use BootX. -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it." -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
