Mk L DR1 Readme 1st

MkLinux - Read Me First This is a work in progress. Things may have changed since these Release Notes were created. Be sure to visit our Web site, www.mklinux.apple.com, for any late breaking news, changes, or updates. Contacting Apple Should you have any comments, issues, or bugs to report, please send us mail at: bugs@mklinux.apple.com. Configuration, Drive Setup and Partitioning We recommend you use a dedicated hard drive for installing MkLinux - for ease of installation and to avoid any potential loss of data, don’t share the drive you use for your primary Macintosh filesystem. You may use Apple HD SC Setup or any 3rd-party disk partitioner that can create "A/ UX" type partitions. Your target drive may be any SCSI ID. We recommend at least 400 MB of available disk space, and 16 MB RAM before you install MkLinux. X11R6 distribution The X11R6 distribution is not automatically installed. To install the X Window system, follow the instructions in the file "X11 Binary Installation" in the folder "MkLinuxFiles:X11R6.bin". Supported Systems This version of MkLinux has been booted and run on the following types of systems: Power Macintosh 6100 Power Macintosh 7100/66, 7100/80 Power Macintosh 8100/80, 8100/100, 8100/110 PowerComputing 100 & 120 Power PC 603/604 are not supported Known problems Video • Only the Power Macintosh on-board video and HPV card are currently supported; nubus video cards will not work in this release. • The video driver does not yet recognize the Apple monitor as a “linux” or “console” terminal type. The following workarounds are recommended: – the linux console is being temporarily considered to be a “vt100” terminal. The /etc/termcap file has been modified accordningly. – stty -onlcr is set for console (vt100) sessions; stty onlcr is set for telnet (vt220) sessions. This has been set in /etc/profile and /etc/csh.login. – Note: You must set the appropriate number of rows for your terminal. Set this in your .profile (.login) or the system /etc/profile (/etc/csh.login). For example, for a 640x480 screen (Apple 13-inch), use: stty rows 30 export LINES=30 # csh: setenv LINES 30 • "Millions Of Colors" (aka 32bpp) is not supported. (yet) •"Thousands of Colors" (aka 16bpp) is supported. X11 does run in this mode, but has problems with adjusting the color map. •Video scrolling is slow. If you are using motherboard video, you might want to set the monitor into Black&White mode (aka 1bpp) for faster scrolling. PCI Bus PCI bus is currently unsupported. SCSI devices • For systems that have two SCSI busses, such as Power Macintosh 8100/100's, the SCSI ID maps are logically merged into one. Devices sharing the same id but on seperate busses are not supported. Only the external bus ID will be accessible in such a case. Shadow drives are not supported • Only SCSI hard disks and CDROM…