Hi,

The good news is that it very nearly worked with 'Mach_Kernel.PERFORMA3.gz'
and installation on an IDE.

Problems were

(a) colours all wrong - presumably a CLUT problem
(b) IDE errors make the system unusable, eventually the system started
hammering the disk, sounds like it's doing a hard seek to track zero (or
park the head) when it does the retries, it got into a loop reseting the
drive so I had to call it a day.

If the IDE and SCSI problems can be sorted it should be a good little
system.

Well done with the progress.

Regards,

Roger

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>From: "David A. Gatwood" <dgatwood@gatwood.net>
>To: Roger Brown <rogerhb@xtra.co.nz>
>Cc: "David A. Gatwood" <dgatwood@deepspace.mklinux.org>, port-macppc@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: Performa 6200 - minor success
>Date: Thu, Dec 14, 2000, 8:03 pm
>

>On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Roger Brown wrote:
>
>> I have managed to 'install' but not run 'MkLinux' on a Performa 6200/75/CD
>> with 330 Meg SCSI and 24Meg RAM. The installation was on the external SCSI.
>> The drive was partitioned with a patched version of HD Setup 7.5.3.
>> 
>> I have the DR3 CD Image on the internal CD drive which it happily
>> recognises.
>> 
>> I am using the Mach_Kernel.PERFORMA3.gz file, (ungzipped and renamed to Mach
>> Kernel).
>> 
>> If I do a default install it gets to the 'root' prompt but refused access
>> with a messages saying 'pam, illegal module type' flashing up for less than
>> a second before a clear screen and relogin. Yes, I did enter the same
>> password as asked for at installation.
>> 
>> If I try a minimal install the 'init' process appears to try all the run
>> levels but a process is spawning too fast with the message 'can't open UTMP:
>> no such file or directory'.
>> 
>> Am I supposed to be using a more recent CD image? (as I don't know where to
>> find this mystic pre-R1 that people talk about)
>
>I strongly suggest installing on IDE.  But since you get as far as you did
>(most people with SCSI issues get a hang when it mounts the filesystem),
>my guess is that your problem was actually running out of space in one of
>your partitions.
>
>
>David
>
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