On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Jeffrey Hergan wrote: > Stew, > I did some research on my G3 Series 266mhz laptop and I found that in > Yellow Dog 2.3, it's a simple matter of plug and play for the PCMCIA > Cardbus firewire card to be recognized and to load the firewire drivers > and recognize the firewire drive attached to the card. > > But I can't stand Yellow Dog. > > So I downloaded the iso's for Mandrake 9.xbeta2. > I tried to set up bootx (Old World machine) but I'm not quite sure what > I need to do to get it to run the installer. I thought 'all.gz' was > the install kernel, but when I use it it says it can't find initrd. I > know I'm missing something obvious--never had a problem with bootx in > years of using it. > > Anyway, my question is: is 8.2 sufficient to run the pcmcia card for > ffirewire? > Do I need to build a new kernel or are the firewire and pcmcia drivers > built as modules by default? > > Thanks, > Jeff >
I believe the 8.2 kernel has the proper support. I'm pretty sure I built most of it on firewire, but it's been a while. all.gz is the initrd, vmlinux is the kernel. So you set all.gz as your initrd, select the kernel, and add the kernel arguments: root=/dev/ram3 ramdisk_size=32000 If you want any video options, or text install, etc. Those would also be in the kernel arguments. I'm pretty sure this is covered in the tutotial on the CDs. You can also look at yaboot.conf to see various boot arguments. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
