[slackintosh-users] Re: OldWorld (beige G3) support?

As Marco said:

 We don't own an oldwork Mac.. so we can't test it.
 But the compiled binaries should work on your hardware..

 The defaultkernel could be the biggest problem..
 I have no idea how good it will work on 'oldworld' macs ;-)

 If something is missing, i could create a 'customized' kernel for you..

> I'm assuming I would simply copy the kernel and initrd setup file 
> to my HFS partition, tell BootX to mount the CD as a root file system, 

BootX doesn't need to care about the CDROM.

Checkout
 http://workaround.ch/pub/slackintosh/10.2/boot

You'll need:

 vmlinux -> Uncompressed Kernel image
 initrd  -> Installer Rootfs

Somhow you'll have to boot the kernel (or a different kernel with ext2
support) using 'initrd' as 'initrd' and with
this arguments (append) 

'root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk_size=10240 rw'

(See: http://workaround.ch/pub/slackintosh/10.2/boot/yaboot.conf)

You shouldn't run into any trouble after you got your system
booting using the initrd..
Just run setup, skip the yaboot configuration and reboot..



> Any caveats?

No idea ;-)

Would be nice if you could write a howto if you got it working..

 -- Adrian

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