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Re: PowerMac 7100/80 won't boot



At 1:56 pm -0700 13/1/03, Marc Stergionis wrote:
At about 12:50 PM -0700 on 1/13/03, Marc Stergionis wrote:
At about 1:08 PM -0500 on 1/13/03, Allan Streib wrote:
Don't know.  My 6500 is a PCI machine.  I only have 32 MB RAM, though.

Allan

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Philip Larkin Waters wrote:

So if it prompts me for nothing after I try to boot from the .img file, that means something like I don't have enough memory to complete the installation
 i'm guessing

 I'm using a 7100/80 with NuBus. I think it has 24MB. is there an even more
 > scaled-down kernel I can use?

NuBus machines require a special kernel. You can find some here, although everything seems to be about 1.5 years old, so don't know how it would work with the packages on your CD. Looks like kernel 2.4.4 ...

Oops ... guess an url would help:

<http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/#binaries>

-ms

You should also look at:

http://fungus.ucdavis.edu/~dylan/index.php

I've successfully installed woody on an 8100/80 using the 2.4.19 kernel

Regards

Clive

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