I've finally got Linux installed on the G3 minitower, but had to cheat a little. I eventually had to install using the serial port as the console after booting with BootX. Any attempt to use the display as the console would lock the machine up at varying places in the install.
I suspect the basic problem is that, since the on-board display in this Mac has failed, I had to use the PCI display. Either the board is faulty in some strange way (although it seems to work perfectly under MacOS), or the driver in the stock woody kernel is buggy. It usually doesn't take too long before the whole thing comes crashing down. So, currently I can access the machine via the serial console or with SSH. I'm now doing an upgrade to sarge, and then I'll try building kernels and see what happens. There's still a couple of loose ends (like finding out why quik doesn't work: I'm still using BootX, and why networking stops periodically), but we're basically there. Thank you to all who replied. I appreciate your help. .....Ron -- Ron Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.rjmx.net/~ron GPG Public Key Fingerprint: F2C1 FC47 5EF7 0317 133C D66B 8ADA A3C4 D86C 74DE
