Subject: Re: Installing 7300/200
From: Charlie Watts (cewatts@frontier.net)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 22:55:15 MST
It's hardly fair, is it? When new 256mb sticks are so cheap ...
http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?model=Power+Mac+8500+Series&x=4&y=14
64MB for $52.19.
I believe memory on the 7600 through 9600 is faster when installed in
pairs ..
(There are much, much cheaper deals to be had on eBay ...)
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, John Nelson wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
-- Charlie Watts cewatts@frontier.net Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/
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