Re: linux on max problem

2004-08-12 Thread Erik C.J. Laan
Tony Pitman wrote: Sarge needs more memory to run, I think. It is crashing during the RAM disk startup. It is saying it is trying to read past the end of the block device. Sarge uses the new d-i (debian-installer), which at this point in time still needs a big ramdisk, bigger then the default si

Re: linux on max problem

2004-08-12 Thread Tony Pitman
Sarge needs more memory to run, I think. It is crashing during the RAM disk startup. It is saying it is trying to read past the end of the block device. So I am back to trying to get woody to work. I get to the point where it unpacks the basedebs.tar file. I end up with a directory on my drive c

Re: linux on max problem

2004-08-12 Thread Tony Pitman
Well, I am slowly getting closer. I now have only one scsi drive in my Q700 so I am not locking up on the basedebs.tar. It chugs away on the basedebs.tar for about 15 mins. Then it takes a look at the debootstrap list files and gives an error that the Packages.gz file was not pre-downloaded. K

Re: linux on max problem

2004-08-12 Thread Tony Pitman
After thinking about it further I have decided to install a small copy of MacOS on the new 170mb drive and try doing the install with just a single drive. It sounds like my problem may come from having 2 drives installed. I will give this a try and let you all know how it goes. Tony On Wed, Au

Re: linux on max problem

2004-08-11 Thread Brad Boyer
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:06:00PM -0600, Tony Pitman wrote: > How and at what point do I do the kernel-commandline: > > mac53c9x=1,0 The kernel command line is one of the configuration options in Penguin. Just add this to whatever is already there. Brad Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: linux on max problem

2004-08-11 Thread Tony Pitman
Erik, How and at what point do I do the kernel-commandline: mac53c9x=1,0 Thanks, Tony Pitman Tony Pitman wrote: Well, I have gotten a lot farther than I was before. I actually got to the part of loading the base debian. This is a Quarda 700 with 20mb ram and 2 HDD. The first is 80mb with MacOS on

Re: linux on max problem

2004-08-11 Thread Erik C.J. Laan
Tony Pitman wrote: Well, I have gotten a lot farther than I was before. I actually got to the part of loading the base debian. This is a Quarda 700 with 20mb ram and 2 HDD. The first is 80mb with MacOS on it and the second is 160mb with 120mb root&usr partition and 46mb swap. As I said I am al

Re: linux on max problem

2004-08-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 10:09 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Tony Pitman wrote: > > As I said I am all the way to the point of extracting the base debs from > > the basedebs.tar file. The problem is that it has been on that dialog for > > about an hour now. Is this normal? I

Re: linux on max problem

2004-08-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Tony Pitman wrote: > As I said I am all the way to the point of extracting the base debs from > the basedebs.tar file. The problem is that it has been on that dialog for > about an hour now. Is this normal? I know it is a slow machine, but should > it really take this long to e

linux on max problem

2004-08-10 Thread Tony Pitman
Well, I have gotten a lot farther than I was before. I actually got to the part of loading the base debian. This is a Quarda 700 with 20mb ram and 2 HDD. The first is 80mb with MacOS on it and the second is 160mb with 120mb root&usr partition and 46mb swap. As I said I am all the way to the poi