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MkLinux DR3 installation errors -- what am I doing wrong?
Posted by: ThisDoesNotCompute on 2020-01-17 13:05:57 I'm trying to get MkLinux DR3 installed on my PowerBook 3400. It's a supported machine, and I can get as far into the install as the point where it formats the partitions. When that's done, just before it's supposed to start copying files, it throws a "mount failed: Invalid Argument" error with no further details. My best guess is that this has something to do with my partitioning scheme, but I'm not sure what would be wrong with it. The 3400 has its original 2GB drive, and I've partitioned it as such: Device Size Partition type Mount point /dev/hda7 512000 HFS (Mac OS partition) /dev/hda8 163840 UNIX - root / /dev/hda9 245760 UNIX - opt /opt /dev/hda10 512000 UNIX - usr /usr /dev/hda11 81920 UNIX - var /var /dev/hda12 409600 UNIX - home /home /dev/hda13 81920 UNIX - swap I picked these partitions and sizes based on the MkLinux install guide. I made sure to keep the swap partition small (I went with 80MB to match how much RAM is in the system) since I've read MkLinux can't handle anything bigger than 127MB. I'm also picking the default install options (not trying to install all the packages off of the CD). Any ideas?
Posted by: PowerPup on 2020-01-17 19:13:25 MkLinux DR3 came out July 1998. I'd try the ISO of MkLinux R2rc5 I uploaded to MacintoshGarden: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/mklinux (R2rc4 was released Aug. 2004) I was able to install MkLinux R2rc5 on my PowerMac 6100 just fine. Hopefully it'll work fine on your PowerBook 3400.
Posted by: ThisDoesNotCompute on 2020-01-18 10:35:39 Thanks, I'll check out R2rc5. Late last night I did manage to get DR3 working -- I created just swap, root and home partitions and the installer went smoothly. Not sure if it was the fewer partitions, or putting swap first, that did it.
Posted by: johnklos on 2020-01-19 09:00:38 There's no benefit and a few downsides to trying to divide up your disk that way, but it's good to hear you got it running. If you'd prefer a modern OS on the PowerBook 3400, NetBSD can run on it.
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