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
Togo Salmon Hall, Room 207
1280 Main Street West Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M2
Phone 905.525.9140 Ext. 24429 Fax 905.577.6930 Email manders@xxxxxxxxxxx
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
