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Post by Jeff D. Robertso » Wed, 04 Nov 1998 04:00:00



Hi.

I just bought the third printing of the book (comes with two CD's). I'm
having a bit of trouble with the partitioning portion of the setup. The
book mentions using the older Apple HD setup program (7.5.3 to be
exact). Since I no longer have "Apple" hard drives in my machine, I also
applied the patch to the HD Setup program to make it see third-party
drives. Unfortunately, it doesn't see *any* drives! Does this old
program detect anything beyond SCSI bus 0? I have a dedicated external
hard drive on my PM 9500 (SCSI bus 1) but the setup utility doesn't
detect the drive. I know there is other partitioning software out that
that can create A/UX partitions, but I would prefer to stick with the
MKlinux instructions regarding the use of Apple HD Setup.

I seem to recall trouble I had in the past trying to get Apple HD Setup
to see drives on other busses, and this was with Apple hard drives, too.
Perhaps this is just a limitation of the software.

 
 
 
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Post by Tom Harringt » Wed, 04 Nov 1998 04:00:00



: Hi.

: I just bought the third printing of the book (comes with two CD's). I'm
: having a bit of trouble with the partitioning portion of the setup. The
: book mentions using the older Apple HD setup program (7.5.3 to be
: exact). Since I no longer have "Apple" hard drives in my machine, I also
: applied the patch to the HD Setup program to make it see third-party
: drives. Unfortunately, it doesn't see *any* drives! Does this old
: program detect anything beyond SCSI bus 0? I have a dedicated external
: hard drive on my PM 9500 (SCSI bus 1) but the setup utility doesn't
: detect the drive.

The software can find drives at any SCSI address.  But given its age,
I suspect that multiple-SCSI-bus systems confuse it.

: I know there is other partitioning software out that
: that can create A/UX partitions, but I would prefer to stick with the
: MKlinux instructions regarding the use of Apple HD Setup.

Probably the easiest solution (short of buying commercial software) is
to use Apple's Drive Setup to partition the drive into multiple HFS
partitions, and then using pdisk to convert selected partitions to A/UX
format.

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1. Making mklinux cd (was mac 6100/66 and mklinux)

Hi again,
I downloaded the dr-3 mklinux raw image from apple's site. Made a cd of
it under XCDRoast that i can fully read and browse on my PC Linux box.

The problem is I cannot get it to read on my mac power pc 6100/66.
The cd-rom is an Apple 4X SCSI cd-rom that is known good (I can read the
system cd I borrowed just fine as well as some kids game cd's (hybrid
pc/mac) I installed system 7.5 on the mac this weekend.

Did I burn the cd wrong?(wrong extensions?) I used Rockridge with
Win95/NT (default) which makes all of my other cd's fine. It includes
Rockridge with anonimity and allows long filenames.
Is it the system 7.5 and I need to get an upgrade?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
J-L

--- forwarded mesaage follows ---
You need to have at least a small MacOS partition with the MacOS
installed
on it, because MkLinux can't boot by itself.  It boots via the MkLinux
Booter, a MacOS system extension which is invoked by the MacOS boot
code.

Once MkLinux is up and running, it takes over the machine completely,
but
you still need the MacOS to get it up and running.

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--- forwarded mesaage follows ---
Hi,
Is it possible to install mklinux dr-3 on an old mac 6100/66 (w/ 40mb
ram and a 340 scsi hdd )I have without having the mac os on it. I have
to do a bare bones install on a clean machine as I no longer have any
mac stuff. I have a pc already running mandrake linux (=redhat 5.2) and
want to put this old mac into service again just as an internet box on
my network.

On my pc linuxbox I have downloaded the DR-3 cd-image and will try to
burn the raw image  tonight with X CDRoast. However everything I read
says do such and such on the mac os side, do so and so in the mac os
etc.

Does anyone have the steps down to load mklinux on a bare 6100/66?

Thanks

J-L

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