[slackintosh-users] Re: g3 B&w install questions
- From: John B <johnb316@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:14:16 -0500
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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