[plug] m68k Linux

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima tony at cantech.net.au
Thu Dec 2 16:48:06 WST 1999


Hello All,
	I'm playing :) .... I  have a mac LC475 and I'm trying to put Linux on it
:).  I've met with some success.  Ie I can sorta mak it work.

The install I'm trying to do is debian 2.1 (slink ???)
It (penguin booter) boots the kernel, loads the initrd and starts the install.

I get:
the colour/mono monitor selection
initialize / activate swap space
initialize / activate linux filesystem
mount / filesystem
Install OS and kernel drivers ... Here is just stops.  the machine is still
running, I can switch virtual consoles BUT the install just sits there for 
a very long time.

If I cheat and install the data from resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin manually
(boot on ramdisk, mount HDD tftp the tgz files down and extract them)
I can get to the installing the base OS (base2_1.tgz).  If I do this then
I eventually get an oops :(

So I tried extracting the base OS itself onto the HDD  this seemed to go okay
BUT then I'm stuck at the configuring stage.  I can't use the installer
anymore and I don't really know what to do next.

So any Ideas on where to go from here ???

Yours Tony.



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