Re: Sarge installer for Mac Performa 6400/180 with 16MB RAM?
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:28:54 +0100
Hans Ekbrand <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:09:18PM +0100, Simon Vallet wrote:
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:03:23 +0100
> > Hans Ekbrand <hans@sociologi.cjb.net> wrote:
> >
> > > No need for BootX (and with 16 MB RAM, the HD is probably small too,
> > > so avoiding BooX seems preferable). My recommendation is boot floppies
> > > from woody and boot the installed system with quik. Thats how I
> > > installed on my Performa 5400 with 24 MB RAM.
> >
> > I agree on the BootX overhead, however be aware that the 6400 will nost
> > likely *not* boot from OF with 'screen' as output-device -- you'll need
> > to use a third party video adapter or a serial console
>
> That would only be necessary if something goes wrong, normally you
> don't need to interact with quik. And if something does go wrong, you
> can boot with the boot floppies again and rescue the system.
While that is technically correct, I think you're on this list long
enough to know that in the vast majority of cases, quik doesn't "just
work" -- did it for your 5400 ?
I think future quik users need to know that it is not always the
"best"/easiest/quickest solution, even if that's the one I personally
adopted.
Simon
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