I am trying to install/use Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 woody on a Macintosh Quadra 700
I have tried installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 sarge, but there were two problems: 1) There is only 20 MB of RAM on the machine (although sarge should support that) 2) The installation of sarge fails always at the same point: when loading the libc6 from the cdrom / iso file / mounted filesystem. So I'm installing woody. Well, the installation was successful, but there is one problem: at boot time, the machine says "Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference..." and then... nothing happens for several minutes. The only solution I have found is to do Ctrl-C on this message to skip this step. The machine even says "Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference..." twice: once just after checking the root filesystem, the second time just after saying "Configuring network interfaces... done" Not surprisingly, when shutting down the machine, it says "Saving the System Clock to the Hardware Clock..." and is stuck. But there, doing Control-C doesn't solve the problem: I have to power off the machine. The filesystems aren't cleanly unmounted. And at the next boot, fsck is forced (it's ext2, not ext3), so starting up takes a very long time since it's a 9 GB disk. I have already added the following lines to /etc/modutils/aliases: alias char-major-10-135 off alias char-major-4-66 off alias char-major-4-67 off alias char-major-4-69 off I am using the default kernel that comes on the debian-30r5-m68k/debian-30r5-m68k-binary-1.iso CD, it's the file linux.bin whose md5sum is: b4169b1701e7dabe565534a49f6bb717 linux.bin Any help would be appreciated Cheers, Alex
