On Thursday 23 January 2003 23:35, wolfgang wrote: > i tried yellow dog too, but when i booted from the cd the ibook was > powering off after some seconds instead of installing anything... > did i do something wrong? (i'm a newbie on macintosh...) > > thanks, wolfgang
and Daniel wrote > I don't think the Radeon 7500 is supported with ydl. The "Radeon > Mobility" (the 600 and 700mhz machines shipped before the lastest ibook > update) is supported by Ydl 2.3 and I suppose mdk 9.1 beta also (tried a > pretty recent cooker release on my radeon mobility ibook some weeks ago, > successfully). OK so it first depends on what we call "YDL 2.3". The download / retail version installs, but with a distorted screen (both console and X). However, you can download a series of files from YDL's site. You install those rpms and everything works (including the iBooks buttons for sound, screen and CD eject but I don't know if that's a YDL or a Linux-PPC feature. The list of the "new" rpms is: dev-3.3.1-1a.ppc.rpm iptables-1.2.6a-2.ppc.rpm iptables-ipv6-1.2.6a-2.ppc.rpm kernel-2.4.20-0.7d.ppc.rpm MAKEDEV-3.3.1-1a.ppc.rpm mkinitrd-3.4.24-1b.ppc.rpm modutils-2.4.18-2.ppc.rpm modutils-devel-2.4.18-2.ppc.rpm mol-0.9.65-1a.ppc.rpm mol-kmods-0.9.65-1b.ppc.rpm don't know if this give a clue. Anyway my iBook 800Mhz (12") is happily running YDL "2.3+". If there is any data I can provide to help, just ask. AFAIK YDL is "Red Hat based", and so is (was?) Mandrake, so I suppose what works for them should work for us (or am I just speaking nonsense??). Thierry -- "I heard if you play the Windows XP CD backwards, you get a satanic message." "That's nothing, if you play it forward, it installs Windows XP"
