Re: Installing 7300/200


Subject: Re: Installing 7300/200
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 22:43:16 MST


Ok, it sounds like I need to find more ancient Mac memory. Makes sense in
an age when you can pick up 256 meg SIMMs off the rack in a retail store
for $35. That's PC RAM of course. I have no idea what ancient Mac 8500
modules are going to run me (if they even exist anymore).

-- John

On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Bo Brinkman wrote:

> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 00:30:19 -0500
> From: Bo Brinkman <brinkman@cs.princeton.edu>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Installing 7300/200
>
> Well, 16 is probably too little, since the ramdisk takes up almost this
> much space, I think. :) I installed on a 40 meg machine, and Linux is
> perfectly happy. I did have install hang AFTER it formatted the drive,
> during the "assign mount points" step. At this point I reboot, restart
> the install, and when I get to the partioning step, I just leave my
> partition map as is. After that, I don't have any problems.
>
> Bo
>
> John Nelson wrote:
>
> > Wow... sounds familiar. How much memory do you have in this machine? I
> > only have 16 meg and I'm told that 64 meg is the minimum.
> >
> > -- John

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