Subject: Re: Installer hangs during while formatting partition
From: H Brett Bolen (wingedlizard@nc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jan 09 2002 - 11:07:29 MST
I tried installing many distributions on my pre-g3 mac clone,
which has 80mg ram.
The only distribition that would work for me is TEXT based install
of mandrake linux ppc. Every other distribition that I tried needed
more than my 80Mg ram. The only reason the mandrake one worked,
is that I could do away with X, and install using a console.
There may be other ways to install ydl and the other distribitions
that don't require x, but I'd say the major problem is that you
don't have enough ram.
b\375
Brandon Beveridge wrote:
> I'm kind of new to linux on the mac, and macs in general. The computer I'm
> trying to install YDL on is a PowerBook G3 300 with 32 mb of ram and and a
> 4gb hard disk. I've create a 900 mb hfs partition while installing mac os
> and left the rest as unpartitioned space, as per the howto instructions. I
> was unable to use the graphical install as it hung up while loading
> x-wndows, so I was using the text based installer. I created a 128 mb swap
> partition (hda10) and used the rest for the root partition (hda11). It
> successfully formats the swap partition and then hangs on the root
> partition.
>
> Brandon
>
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