Tony Pitman wrote:
Well, I have gotten a lot farther than I was before. I actually got to
the part of loading the base debian.
This is a Quarda 700 with 20mb ram and 2 HDD. The first is 80mb with
MacOS on it and the second is 160mb with 120mb root&usr partition and
46mb swap.
As I said I am all the way to the point of extracting the base debs from
the basedebs.tar file. The problem is that it has been on that dialog for
about an hour now. Is this normal? I know it is a slow machine, but
should it really take this long to extract?
If this is typical, can someone tell me how long IS too long? How long
should I give it before I figure something is wrong? If something is
wrong, what do I do about it?
Tony,
It's typical for this step to 1) take long (several hours on my Quadra
650, which is 33MHz/25MHz=about 32% faster then your Quadra700 and 2) to
hit the reselect-problems when using multiple SCSI devices. This latest
issue can be solved the following way:
Use at least a 2.2.20 kernel, and disable reselect with the following
kernel-commandline:
mac53c9x=1,0 (for every 68040 Mac except Quadra900/950)
mac53c9x=2,0 (for Quadra 900/950).
HTH, Erik
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