[slackintosh-users] Re: g3 B&w install questions

Yes to helping.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Jesse St.John
<jesselorenstjohn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> yes what? help? that would be awesome.....
> On Jan 12, 2012, at 9:14 AM, John B wrote:
>
>> Yes
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Jesse St.John
>> <jesselorenstjohn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> are you still open to helping me out w/ slackintosh on a g3 b&w?
>>>
>>> On Nov 11, 2011, at 6:07 AM, Donovan Watteau wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> 2011/11/11 Jesse St.John <jesselorenstjohn@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> hi group, im interested in finding anyone with experience installing
>>>>> slackintosh on a g3 blue and white. any info would be great.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I do have a B&W G3 running Slackintosh 12.1. Did you already try to
>>>> install it or are you asking if there are problems installing it?
>>>> Because there are some problems, mainly with Yaboot, but with a few
>>>> workarounds things work here.
>>>>
>>>> Things are really problematic if you don't have any HFS or Ext2/Ext3
>>>> partition on your hard drive, because Yaboot can't boot the kernel
>>>> from the CD-Rom on a G3 B&W. And you can't netboot with the (old)
>>>> version of Yaboot which comes with Slackintosh 12.1 because the initrd
>>>> is too big. So, as far as I know, you need to make an HFS partition
>>>> with Mac OS or a ext2 partition with something like OpenBSD/macppc
>>>> installer (which boots fine from the CD-Rom, maybe because the kernel
>>>> is way smaller).
>>>>
>>>> If you do have an HFS or Ext2/Ext3 partition, then things will be
>>>> easier. So, just tell me what you have and I'll try to tell you what
>>>> to do.
>>>>
>>>> BTW, don't try to run Slackintosh -current on a G3 B&W. There are some
>>>> options missing in the kernel so it won't work well. I do have a
>>>> 2.6.33.9 kernel which works fine here on a G3 B&W with the version of
>>>> udev provided in Slackintosh 12.1 (later kernels don't cope well with
>>>> an old udev). When you're done with installing Slackintosh 12.1, I
>>>> could send you this kernel if you want it.
>>>>
>>>> You'll also need a patched version of xf86-video-r128 if you want to
>>>> run Xorg, otherwise it will just crash (I guess there was a bug in
>>>> this version of Xorg, using a more recent version of xf86-video-r128
>>>> with a patch from OpenBSD made it work for me).
>>>>
>>>> I also have some packages (openjdk, postgresql, dosbox, gprolog,
>>>> ocaml, mupdf, valgrind...) that you might want.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Donovan.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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