Re: Installation freezes
M5183 is not an absolute identifier - it identifies the form factor rather than the specific model. It's probably a PowerMac G4 "Yikes" . Was it running Mac OS 9 when you were given it? The Apple System Profiler under the Apple menu would tell you for sure. If it has PCI graphics it's a Yikes. If it has AGP graphics it's a Sawtooth, or possibly a Gigabit Ethernet. Low End Mac has good info on all these old machines:
http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/index.shtml
You definitely need more RAM. It's cheap on eBay. I once got Debian Sarge working on a Powerbook 1400 with only 64 MB of RAM but I partitioned the disk manually and set up a 512 MB SWAP partition. That helped a lot. You would need to set up a separate yaboot partition for your machine too, you know.
Cheers, Tom
On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Wayde Allen wrote:
> This thing was given to me, so I'm a bit sketchy on the details, but
> the sticker on the back reads:
> Power Mac G4, family# M5183, 400 MHz, 1M cache, 64 MB SDRAM, 10 Gbyte
> Hard Drive/DVD-ROM. The system was probably built around 2000. The
> hard drive is actually a 70 Gbyte drive so perhaps it was upgraded.
>
> Getting it running is merely a curiosity.
>
> - Wayde
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> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Thomas Carlson <tcarlson@sharedcup.com> wrote:
>> What sort of "old G4" are you talking about?
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Dec 20, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Wayde Allen wrote:
>>
>>> I've recently been trying to install the latest copy of DebianPPC on
>>> an old G4. The install disk boots, finds the network, partitions the
>>> hardrive, and begins dowloading files from the mirror. However, once
>>> it finishes downloading the last file the system simply stops the
>>> installation. The computer seems to be working, I can for instance do
>>> an Alt-F2 to get a new shell and poke around in the system. It is
>>> just the install that has stopped. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> --
>>> - Wayde
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