Macintosh

I am trying to get Ubuntu 5.04 or Debian 3.1 running on the original PB G3 (aka Kanga aka 3500). The only problem: the screen is blank after the inital reboot after the installation. Nothing at all (Ubuntu) or only an inverted penguin (Debian). The boot process continues only if one copies over the ramdisk image from the /boot folder onto the HFS partition and specifies it as boot argument. Might it be that the root=/dev/hda8 (in my case the root partition is hda8) is somehow not recognized?

1. Save all sequences in one flatfile format (NOT MacVector format), e.g. genbank format.
2. Copy all sequences to a Linux/UNIX computer and convert them from Mac format to UNIX format: mac2unix *.gb
3. Write all sequence fiule names into one file: ls *.gb > oligo.lst
4. Convert all sequences into one file of concatenated fasta entries using EMBOSS: seqret -sequence @oligo.lst -osformat fasta. Call the output file "mcbl_oligo_db"
5. Put this fasta file into the blast web servers database directory (.../blast/db)