Subject: RE: new ? on installing a new drive question and processor upgrade
From: Stiles, Robert W (Robert.Stiles@West.Boeing.com)
Date: Mon Jun 19 2000 - 10:06:45 MDT
Ed,
I'm currently running a 6500 with a Newer G3L2/300/200 upgrade card and YDL.
However the only restriction I currently have is I had to get kernel version
2.2.6-15a in order to boot form the IDE drive (Maxtor 12GB). I looked at the
code in the 2.2.15 version and that code has been rewritten. But other
then that it work s fine.
> ----------
> From: Ed Jaeger[SMTP:ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com]
> Reply To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Sent: Friday, June 16, 2000 8:29 AM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: new ? on installing a new drive question and processor
> upgrade
>
> You will probably also want to set up a swap partition for linux - just
> one for all your versions will work. Also, make sure you have less than
> 16 total partitions - Apple's drive setup puts in a bunch itself (4 or
> so) just for the driver & some other stuff.
>
> I have a PowerLogix G3 upgrade in my PowerBase which works in linux just
> fine, although you have to turn on the L2 cache by hand. However, the
> only G3 for the 6500 is from Sonnet and is an L2 card (it replaces the
> L2 cache dimm instead of relacing the original CPU), so you will need to
> check around to seeif it will mork.
>
> "Turnquist,Wayne" wrote:
> >
> > ok, i will have to buy a big drive, lets say 18 gig
> >
> > lets say i format it into 6 2 gig and 2 3 gig sections using hfs only
> >
> > im going to use the 2 gig sections to run/play with two different
> > flavors/kernels of linux and i will leave one of the 2 gig sections as a
> > shared place for the mac and linux, four will be used for mac os 8.6 and
> the
> > other one will be used to beta test the next macos x
> >
> > what should i watch out for,
> > can i place linux in any of the above partions
> > should i partion some with hfs+
> > ?
> >
> > ps, does any one have one of newers g3-ls 400/200 upgrade processor
> cards in
> > a powerpc 6500/250.
> > if i upgrade to this card, will linux run, will macos x run
> >
> > thanks for your time
>
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> Ed Jaeger, CFO, Bohlender Graebener Corporation
> ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com
> http://www.bgcorp.com
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