On Wed, Dec 05, Andrew wrote:
Hi:
Is there anyone on this list who has successfully installed the Linux PPC 7.3 on a G4 Dual 500 ( Sept 2000 edition)?
I am having problems installing it using the tips seen in the manual including the drag Linux boot to the linux boot partition, using alt+apple +O+ F boot up command line etc
Monitor I am using is the E771 viewsonic
Background:
The software was installed on a StarMax 5000 250 with this same monitor but ended up using the Text interface because SaX2 failed. So I switched over to the G4 to see if I can get it to install satisfactorily.
What graphics card do you have in the starmax? Does it help when you boot with the 'No video driver' checkbox enabled in BootX? The G4 should boot fine when you hold down the 'c' key during startup. What problems do you have? You could use boot cd:,install with the 7.3 CD1 when you have a nvidia card. It might be possible that the radeon driver does not work as expected, then boot that way: boto cd:,install video=ofonly Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...