Subject: Re: Can't install cs 1.1 from CD on G3 MT
From: Don Ellis (donls@michelob.wustl.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 09 2000 - 11:14:38 MST
Thanks, Ian! This should go in the FAQ.
I didn't want to unplug my [internal] zip drive, nor the [internal]
ATA hard drive, so I just unplugged everything beyond the 2G drive I
was installing on, leaving just the 2G external. It worked, pretty
much as advertised. I tried plugging in the external 3G drive and
leaving the external Jaz2 unplugged, but no go. The MacOS partition
on the 2G turned out to have defaulted to HFS+, so I am going to play
with that one a little more, but everything else is looking pretty
good now.
As you said, not quite a usable system yet, but it's getting there!
A KVM switch will be really helpful. I'm running IPNetRouter on a
IIci for my connection to the outside world. Would like to isolate
several functions that way in a "thin server" setup. IPNetRouter
gives me a DHCP server, so I don't have to deal with assigning
addresses.
At 9:47 AM +0000 3/8/2000, Ian Miller wrote:
> >Long story - I have been trying to install cs 1.1 on my G3 minitower
> >and fairly consistently get the system to freeze up during the
> >install.
>
>I had a similar but not identical problem. My B&W G3 will not boot with
>the USB-ZIP drive plugged in. It boots 2.2.6 and 2.2.12-2 okay (albeit the
>keymap setting are different and mutually incompatible; use the wrong one
>and you get a non-sense keyboard). 2.2.14 boots but both the keyboard and
>mouse are completely dead. 2.2.15 does not boot at all, it hangs the
>machine with MacOS screen still up.
>
>My conclusion is that not only are some of the drivers not fully working
>but they are still inclined to take the whole machine with them.
>
>I would recommend unplugging every device not necessary for actual booting.
>Leave the keyboard, mouse, CD and one hard-disc, and disconnect everything
>else. See if you can boot then. Consider using the 2.2.12-2 kernel off
>the updates disc, instead of 2.2.6. [I don't think that either is more
>likely to work than the other, but they both worth trying.] If you can
>boot at all, add devices one by one and see what will run.
>
>I have found that there is no version that will access either the ZIP drive
>or the printer. As such my Linux installation isn't up to being used for
>anything serious yet. I will try further kernels as they become available.
>However as the most recent kernels are worse, I think it may be quite some
>time before things get better.
>
>Ian
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