[slackintosh-users] Re: g3 B&w install questions
- From: Jesse <jesselorenstjohn@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:24:14 -0600
Thanks to all for sharing info w/ me
Sent from my iPhone 4
On Nov 11, 2011, at 6:07 AM, 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.
>
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