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Re: MkLinux Installation on Performa 6214 CD

on 8/12/01 4:02 PM, Bruce Johnson at email@hidden wrote:

> Update:
>
> I am trying to get MKLinux to install on a Performa 6214CD, with 64 mb of
> memory and a 6 gb drive (partitioned via pdisk)
>
> I downloaded and burned a CD from the DR1 disk image at the MKLinux ftp site.
>
> I put the MKLinux booter and kernel from that disk into the extensions folder
> (fresh OS8.1 install, works fine) of the Performa, the control panel in the
> control panels, and the lilo.conf and mklinux.prefs files in the prefs file.
>
> At bootup I get the MKLInix splash screen, but when I click on Boot MKLinux,
> it hangs right there. Says 'System Booting ' in the splash screen.
>
> The performa is otherwise dead stock:1 IDE drive, the SCSI CD-rom is apple's
> (4x??) drive on ID3 Bus 0. (I've got a 512k cache DIMM in the cache slot, and
> 2 32 mb simms in the memory slots.) I have a Dayna 10/100 PDS ethernet card,
> but removed it in case that's the problem.
>
> I have a 7600 with all sorts of other stuff in it (Old IXMicro pci video card,
> usb card, Sonnet G3 processor and a motley assortment of memory) and the thing
> boots right into linux when I use the files and instructions from the DR1 disk
> I have.
>
> I have tried the Performa kernels from the wip directory on the MKlinux site,
> and another installer kernel suggested to me (Thanks Louis) but no go.
>
> It's frustrating...the MKLinux site says that this is the same model of
> Performa 62XX that's known to work.
>
> Bruce Johnson
> College of Pharmacy
> Information Technology Group
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The same kind of thing happened to me... Did you decompress the kernel? My
6205 hung with the same exact of thing. I used MacGzip to uncompress it.

-- Andrew 'email@hidden'
"Give me ambiguity or give me something else."



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