On Thu, 20 May 1999, Ray Allis wrote:

"Velasquez, Carlos" wrote:

quoted

Hello,

Has anyone successfully installed  Linux on a Umax S900 Mac clone? If so,
can you share your stories with me? I am having problems installing Linux on
my Umax S900 (225 Mhz ppc with 162Meg ram, ixMicro Twin Turbo 8Meg video
card.) Apparently, when I try to do a CD install, the installer doesn't
recognize the CD Rom device. I believe I have a Matshita CD rom drive
installed as an internal SCSI device (bus 0, Id 4).

I gave up. ;)  First attempt, the installer did not recognize the Twin
Turbo.  Someone on this list offered a fixed installer.  Then, the
machine lost track of the CD, so the installer displayed o.k. but could
not see anything to install. ;)  Then the whole SCSI went invisible - no
CD, no floppy, no Zip.  Soooo, sent it to the shop, where they replaced
the motherboard (where the SCSI chip was mounted).  Now the installer
won't write (correctly) to the internal hard drives.  Seems the E100
chip sorta refuses to let the two 2-gig disks be anything but RAID, no
matter how I initialize them.  And then too, it's a twin processor SMP,
and THAT won't run anything but the Umax-supplied demos (MacOS 7.6) and
then for a maximum of 30 minutes. 

What version of LinuxPPC are you trying to install? I've gotten R4.0 and
pre-R5 to install on my dual 180MHz S900. Though both installed over the
net, but both were able to see both SCSI busses and both my Matsushita CD
and Panasonic CD-R. I've also gotten it to run MacOS 8.0 and 8.1. Haven't
bothered with 8.5 or 8.6 yet. I am currently having my latest kernel
2.2.6-15apmac to use my Matsushita CD though. I don't use it very often,
so I don't know if any earlier 2.2.x kernels also gave trouble. My CD-R
works just fine though.

I'm parting it out ;).

Ray Allis

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