Okay some great stuff here and from the other posters as well. Most of this
stuff I have knowledge of as it is similar to PCs. I tried booting an 8.5
boot CD by pressing the "C" key to no avail. So I got curious and removed
the motherboard and noticed the empty ram slots which means there is only
the on-board 8 MB. It looks like the Mac doesn't have enough memory to keep
going.
I thought about the G3 upgrade to the cache slot but I don't think it will
work with Yellow Dog Linux which I was just going to try since it is free to
download. Looks like I will need some more RAM and hopefully things will
come together.
Can I download the boot floppy files from Apple?
Regards,
Thomas
The G3 upgrade should be fine under YDL - I used to use a Motorola StarMax 4000 with an L2-slot G3 upgrade as my mail server, and YDL installed and ran quite well on it. The boot loader that you'll use (BootX) will enable the L2 cache on the G3, and you can also enable/disable/adjust it once YDL is running via the sysctl facility. You will probably want more RAM for it, that's for sure. If you're just going to be using console applications on your machine, and no X-Windows, 64MB should be pretty good. Of course, the more the better, and I'm always an advocate of putting the maximum amount in where possible. I suppose the old adage "you can never be too rich or too thin" could be somewhat modified to say "you can never have too much RAM".
HTH,
Gary
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