installing on 8500
ive managed to install potato on an old 8500, with only a few hitches.
thanks to the list archive, most of the quirks seems to have been documented,
but i thought it might be usefull to shed a bit more light on the networking
problems it seems to share with the 7200.
install method. bootX + ramdisk from macOS on 2nd hd.
network debian install.
editing the partition table always resulted in a kernel panic after writing
(dont know why), but a reboot showed the disk partitioned properly, so i
continued.
using dhcp to configure the network setting on eth0 caused networking to fail
(this seems to be a problem with MACE. chip revision for the 8500 is 9.64).
even if network was configured again manually using the dialog, it stil failed.
the only way to get around this was to exit to shell, bring eth0 down + set
networking up manually.
(reset networking)
ash# ifconfig eth0 down
ash# route del default
(substitute required ip numbers)
ash# if config eth0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
ash# route add default gw 192.168.1.1
(check changes worked)
ash# ifconfig -a
ash# route -n
after installing and configuring the base system, i added testing to the
apt-sources list + got xfree86 4.1 working with both the framebuffer and ati
drivers, so kde runs quite smoothly.
hope this is usefull.
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