[slackintosh-users] Re: Sucessfully running on a 7500!
- From: Mikael Andersson <manders@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 12:57:10 -0400
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Hi Scott,
Just got everything up and going with a custom 2.6.16.16 kernel on an
OldWorld G3 myself, I'm very pleased about that. =)
I'm using BootX though, which requires a minimal OS9 install - what
would you say the chances are that yaboot would "fix" my OldWorld
OpenFirmware to boot Slackintosh directly? Is this what happened for you?
To answer your question, the standard version of swaret works fine
(since it's all scripts anyway, nothing arch-specific about it). You
would need to point your swaret.conf to ROOT= (and DEP_ROOT=)
http://workaround.ch/pub/slackintosh/current/
AFAIK, specific versions (10.2 etc) do not have the necessary
information (FILELIST, etc) to work with swaret, but current does. I'm
upgrading the sweet lil' G3 from 10.1 to current as we speak, using swaret.
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
Scott Hammond wrote:
> Hi, Ive got a success story and a question:
>
> I just got Slackintosh 10.2 successfully installed on
> my pmac 7500. Its running on an ide disk (formatted
> PC style/MBR) with a promise pci/ide controller.
> There are no scsi disks or macos installed on the
> computer. The system boots to an external scsi
> optical MO drive which has some old funky version of
> yaboot and a copy of my kernel. Dont ask me how this
> version of yaboot works on an old world mac, but it
> does nicely. I had to tweak the slackintosh setup
> programs since there are no scsi drives attached to
> the system. All in all its running smooth.
>
> Is there a version of swaret for slackintosh? Is it
> possible to tweak the swaret scripts to point to the
> slackintosh repository? Otherwise, whats the
> preferred method for upgrading packages? slapt-get?
>
> thanks!
> Scott
>
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