hi, it was reported CRUX PPC 2.7a (32bit) is able to boot from cd on G3 B&W. Something like that on yaboot prompt: apple32 rootdelay=20 (or more) About xorg-xf86-r128 i don't know. Anyway you can use cruxppc to prepare you powermac and then install Slackintosh. I hope this helps. cheers, Nello On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Donovan Watteau <tsoomi@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- -- Power Mac G4 AGP 450MHz - CRUX PPC (32bit)