Bug#305882: [PPC] rc3/lowmem (32M) install fails on imac g3 with usb kbd, works for more mem
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Severity: important
I just got my hands on an old iMac G3 (233MHz), one of the first tray
loading models. I was asked to install Debian on it, so I got the
businesscard rc3 image and started the install.
As the system has only 32M of RAM, after loading the installer, I got
the "lowmem" warning message, which i expected as normal. Strangely,
I couldn't press enter on the keyboard (a usb one). Apparently the usb
kbd driver is not loaded in lowmem.
I had a 64M PC133 SO-DIMM module lying around so I upgraded the iMac's
memory to 96M. After that, the installation proceeded correctly, and I got to
the languagechooser screen, but I still could not select anything. After
some tests, I found that I had to unplug the USB kbd and plug it back
again, and then it would work fine.
After that the installation proceeded with no problems.
I completely formatted and installed Debian on this system (left no
trace of MacOS whatsoever :-).
Still installing now from network, this will take a long time over my
slow (384k) ADSL. So far, apart from these two problems, everything else
seems to work fine.
Konstantinos
PS. This report is done on another system, that's why I don't attach the
install logs.
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