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

Slackintosh works on my "Apple Network Server 700/150"
Procedure described here is correct

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 22:06, Adrian Ulrich wrote:
> 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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