Subject: Re Installing on iMac DV SE 500
From: William F. Hostman (aramis@gci.net)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 06:37:33 MDT
A followup on my last post:
the hardware: iMac DV SE 500 MHz, apple pro mouse and keyboard. 30GB
internal IDE (EIDE?), partitioned with just MacOS partion at 14GB. Rest
added during install or by HD Setup last week.
128MB ram physical.
I used BenH's vmlinux-2.2.17pre9-ben1. Copied the ramdisk file over as
well; loaded all via yaboot in the root level of my HFS partition (hda9).
Booted with following paramenters set in yaboot.config
default = installv
image = hd:0,\vmlinux-2.2.17pre9-ben1
label = installv
initrd = hd:0,\ramdisk.image.gz
append = "video=aty128fb:vmode:17,cmode:24"
hda9 is my hfs macOS 9.x partition.
hda10 is my / 13GB
hda 11 is swap 128MB
hda12 mounts as /wil 811 MB
Don't ask me why, but it failed with hd:9 set. It worked with hd:0. go figure.
ran the installer from the ramdisk. Everything went fine until the
autoconfigs. Mouse (and probably due to mouse failing) X failed to
configure. Manually skipped mouse, and continued. x skipped as well.
sans these glitches, it installed ok. used following to boot:
image = hd:9,\vmlinux-2.2.17pre9-ben1
label = linux
root=/dev/hda10
append = "video=aty128fb:vmode:17,cmode:24"
boots up just fine.
OF command used is:
>boot hd:9,yaboot.tbxi
Next goal: see if I can find a better kernel (I couldn't find the one the
other gent used), and see if it will install and onfigure with mouse.
After that: move kernel OFF the MacOS HFS partition! Move Yaboot to it's
own partition (so I can reformat hda9 as HFS+).
Any help or new kernel suggestions would be appreciated!
(Now to remember how to set up accounts... it's been years since I've used
a un*x-like OS. guidance that way should be off-list, please, primarily so
I can find it.)
one thing that someone might consider is writing a "help afterboot"
helpfile. For people like me without books to hand, to guide them through
account setup, and other new-user/new-admin type issues. MacBSD-68K has
one... (can't remember the full details, as I've not been able to leap that
hurdle on my color classic... but that's getting off topic).
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