iMac Rev A -- newbie help

[Goofus]

OK, I received and installed the 4mb VRAM chip today and YDL still won't
install correctly -- this time one of the error messages I get is "could not
set new controlling tty", whatever that is.  The install proceeds as before
(text only) but two hours later I'm just now able to boot into Mac OS 9
after several OS9 initializations/installs and zapping the PRAM 300 times.
Yaboot didn't even show itself this go-round.

This coming Saturday will mark a full three weeks I've spent trying to get
Linux on here (YDL, Mandrake, Debian, etc., etc.), and at a rate of five
full hours per night I'm more than done with this project.

It's good to know that I can in fact have 256mb of RAM in here, and good to
know that (in theory) I can run OSX as well -- I don't have the funds or
interest in pursuing either of those avenues when getting Linux on here was
my original (and only) goal.

Thanks everyone for your help, it is sincerely appreciated despite my
ultimate defeat.

Donald   :-)



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew McVinnie" <lintila@mac.com>
To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: iMac Rev A -- newbie help


> OK Goofus,
>
> You can put any ram you want in you iMac...  Yes your iMac has a 66mhz
> bus, and yes, the ram it originally came with is 66mhz, but you can buy
> and use 100, 133 mhz chips. Your mother board will never know the
> difference.  The faster ram will just run at a slower speed of your
> mother board.  Go buy two 128 chips and put one in each memory slot of
> your iMac. It will work i promise. 256 is the max your iMac can take
> though.
>
> There are 2 slots on the iMac. One on top and one underneath the
> daughter card. I'm sure you are familiar with the upper one, but to get
> to the lower one, you have to pop the daughter board off the mother
> board. The second slot is in the same place as the first, just on the
> bottom.
>
> I have about 12 original iMac all running Mac OS X in my office. They
> have all been upgrade like this.
>
> Andrew McVinnie