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

I got Slackintosh 10.1 installed on my beige G3 233MHz without a hitch by using the Gentoo kernel from Gentoo/PPC 2005.0 along with the Slackintosh initrd image. I assume you don't want a HOWTO for the Slackintosh project relying on a kernel from Gentoo =) so as soon as I get a spare moment I will compile a new kernel and submit it.

Thanks for your help everyone!

Mikael Andersson
Computer Technician
McMaster University
Humanities Media & Computing

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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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