[slackintosh-users] Re: Sucessfully running on a 7500!
- From: Scott Hammond <sehammond@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:42:39 -0700 (PDT)
Ill zip up my boot partition with this yaboot and send
it over. It just contains the yaboot files and my
kernel. I somehow got this version of yaboot when I
was playing with linuxppc a few years ago. I had to
boot into macos once to make this disk the preferred
boot target, but other than that, no macos partition
required.
Scott
--- Mikael Andersson <manders@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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
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>
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> Email manders@xxxxxxxxxxx
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>
> 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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