Re: Installing on PowerMac 7600 - no CDROM found

[Stew Benedict]

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote:

> On 26/6/02 00:02, "Stew Benedict" <sbenedict@mandrakesoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> > 
> >> On 25/6/02 20:15, "Jeroen Diederen" <decanniere@hetnet.nl> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Dear all,
> >>> 
> >>> I have successfully initialized my second SCSI drive (sdb) and made two
> >>> partitions. The first one, (150 Mb (HFS)) I have put OS 8 on, and the second
> >>> of 1.9 Gb is unallocated. If I doubleclick the Install Mandrake Linux
> >>> application I get an error message: Sorry, can't setup Bootx
> >>> 
> >>> I then tried to do things manually. I copied the BootX app, the extension
> >>> and the kernels to the system folder. I restarted and added in the Bootx
> >>> extension under 'More kernel arguments' 'ramdisk_size=34000'. I took the 2.2
> >>> kernel and highlighted 'Force video settings' and 'Use specified RAM disk',
> >>> which is 'all-2.2.gz'.
> >>> If I then boot in  Linux, it starts the installer but if I try to choose the
> >>> CD as installation medium, it cannot find my CDROM. I end up in a question
> >>> which SCSI driver to take.
> >>> 
> > 
> > Any particular reason you're using the 2.2 instead of the 2.4 kernel?
> > You may find you'll need mac53c94 also, to access your hard drive later.
> > 
> > Stew Benedict
> For some reason I got strange lines in my monitor with kernel 2.4. How do I
> specify that mac53c94 ? Where can I choose that ? The thing is that if I dod
> a hard disk install, the hard  disk is not found either, so maybe you're
> right. 

It's in the module choices.  Normally the installer would offer a list of
modules.  A hard drive install assumes you are reading the install files
from an ext2 partition on a hard-drive, installing to another
partition(s).  On older SCSI macs, both mesh and mac53c94 are used for the
2 SCSI controllers. 

Stew Benedict

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