Subject: Re: trouble installing on 8500/120
From: Michael A. Peters (Moonglue@141.com )
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 23:45:09 MDT
Get drive setup 1.7.3 from Apple's site and update your drivers.
Then try again.
That just *might* do the trick-
>Let it be said now: I'm new to Linux, and could really use some help.
>
>I've seen this problem posted a couple of times but never seen any
>resolution to the problem posted. I have an 8500/120 with 96MB Ram, 2
>internal SCSI drives (2G and 4G), and the original 4X cd-rom drive. Apart
>from the one internal drive I added, nothing has changed from stock on this
>thing, and it runs OS 9.0.4 without so much as a hiccup.
>
>I get all the way through the partitioning (I've tried both drives, with
>numerous partition sizes, but we'll say MOST of the time on average it's
>been 128 or 192M swap, with the rest allocated to root), then reboot, launch
>the installer again, mount the partitions as "/" and "swap partition," start
>installing packages, and WHAM: no matter what packages I choose, it ALWAYS
>hangs about 10MB into the install, the cursor blinks for a few seconds, then
>disappears. I wish I knew where it went. The only thing I can do at that
>point is restart (Command-Ctrl-Power) and try again. I've tried again about
>40 times.
>
>I'm sure it should work with my machine. Can anyone tell me what they think
>I could be doing wrong?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Travis Hulsey
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