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Installing MKLinux on a 6214 CD

I've got an old Performa 6214-CD, with 64 megs and a 6gb drive.

I've set up my various drive partitions, using pdisk; Made a base install of OS8 on a Mac partition, created an installer CD from the image on the mklinux ftp site, and downloaded the performa kernels from the ftp site. We've made other functional linux disk images using the cd burner and software that I used, so I'm assuming the CD is ok. It looks ok from the mac side, at least.

Absent any documentation I'm assuming the three different Performa kernels are simply new&improved versions of the previous ones?

I downloaded the performa3 kernel, ungzipped it, called it Mach Kernel, put in my extensions folder (or prefs, wherever it's supposed to go, I don't have the docs in front of me here) and tried to boot into the installer.

I get as far as the MKLinux boot extension, selecting boot MKLinux, and it hangs there.

The only really non-standard thing on this performa is that it has a Dayna 10/100 ethernet card...could that be causing problems this early in the boot process?

Any ideas? I was really hoping to be able to do something useful with this thing....

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group



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