[geeks] Ok I am ready to kill this Fu**ing linux box

[Mike Hebel]

>>Most Quadra 610's were full '040's, only the 8/160 config was an LC.
>>Are you sure you have the LC?  (IF you do, I have a spare 040 25MHz
>>kicking around...)
> 
> 
> I just opened it up and checked, and it is the 68LC040.  This particular
> one seems to have a ~230MB hard drive and 24MB of RAM (I'm guessing 8MB on
> the motherboard and 16MB in SIMMs).

The board I removed when converting my 610 to a 6100 was also an LC040. 
  There's quite a number of them out there - especially in the Quadra lines.

> 
>>Yeah, but that's the way it's done to get around some of the mac
>>firmware.  The good news is that you can make a really small MacOS
>>partition and just have a bootable system on it as well as the utility.
>>Put the utility in as a startup item, and booting is still automatic.

This works but remember to download the latest kernel loader.
You may have to tweak things on it to due to ADB and video/network 
oddness.  YMMV.

> Depending on how I decide to do things, this might not be much of a
> problem.  I could probably just have the kernel and loader on the MacOS
> partition and do everything else over the network...  Err, maybe some
> local swap space would be nice too...

The 230Meg will _probably_ be big enough for a small load of Debian 68k 
but as with anything you'll have to choose some fairly dedicated tasks 
for the machine due to size of distro load.

Also remember to download a new kernel as the previous ones don't 
support ADB well at all.  (Symptoms are things like lockups during 
kernel load, and PowerBook "sleep" issues during installation.)

A good place to start is : http://www.linux-m68k.org
The 68k mailing list contains nuggets among the vast amount of SPAM it 
seems to receive.

Here's a link to a Debian 68k how-to:
http://www.linux-m68k.org/debian-mac.html

Mike Hebel