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new to this list, hellos to everyone. glad i
found it ect, as everyone I talk to calls me absoltly insane for wanting to
install linux on this old mac quadra 950 - i think it's just damn
cool.
have installed and maintained red hat, mandrake,
gentoo, ect, but never debian before, also this is my first mac. makes for
a rough ride. took me a few days to get to this point and i just
cant seem to get past this error.
2gb scsi disk on scsi controller 0, scsi id
1
7 partitions...mac drivers, mac os,
ect.
macos partition is 10mb
SDA6 65mb swap
SDA7 remaining space linux root
pengiun loads the installer fine, get thru the
first section of install (using network to debian servers for
packages).
when it reboots with the root set to SDA7 i get rtc
errors as expected
i understand the quadra has a RTC bug, or drivers
arent written for it ect. at first, i was freezing at the error 'cant load
module 135 10' ect inreguards to the rtc. i read somewhere that pressing
control-c gets passed it, which it does.
the real problem is this:
at the first screen 'congradulations' ect, im
presented with an 'Ok' button at the bottom, when i hit that, it
says:
Loading /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
and will not get passed it. ive tried CTRL-c,
x, z, ect...nothing works. it prints my input onto the
screen.
ive got a mac keyboard with f1-f15, number pad,
ect, and have selected 'mac-extended' keyboard during first part of
install.
screen blanks after 10 mins or so, screensaver i
suppose, and responds to a keypress. not real sure where to go from
here. i've installed three times now, and have come up with this same
error each time. help :)
thanx for any input
james
daytona beach, fl
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