[slackintosh-users] Re: Any testers?
- From: nello martuscielli <ppc.addon@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:40:49 +0100
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:08 PM, John B <johnb316@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Derek,
>
> I have a B&W G3 PowerMac which I'm willing to use as a testing box. The only
> request I would make when building the installer kernels is that support be
> added for using ATA and SATA hard drive adapters in PCI card format. I had
> tried to install an older version of Slackintosh on the box but was unable
> to do so, because the installer would not recognize the ACARD ATA hard drive
> adapter I have on the box. As a result, I ended up installing Debian 5.0.6,
> where the installer recognized my ACARD adapter. However, I would like to
> get rid of Debian because I don't like the way that it segregates
> development headers from the rest of the package for any given package.
>
ACARD driver is also included in bootkernel from CRUX PPC 2.7 32bit.
Maybe starting from a CRUX is the simplest method to build a new
project from scratch or a nextgen Slackintosh or installing Slack in
chroot.
cheers,
Nell
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Power Mac G4 AGP 450MHz - CRUX PPC (32bit) 2.7
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