Hi, I have a need to prove that some 20'th century software can run with only 20'th century software on 20'th century Apple hardware. (It's complicated and has to do with a court case.)
The package I need to demonstrate was supported on Linux, but not MacOS 9. I believe that if I can install YellowDog 1.2 or Champion Server 1.2 or (possibly) ppcLinux 2000, the rest of the project will be trivial. I've found the repository at http://ftp.caliu.cat/pub1/distribucions/yellowdog/releases/champion-1.2 This site has the contents of what I believe was the install ISO, but no bootable iso image (though the instructions suggest that there was such an image). I'm working with a gray clamshell iBook (model 2453), with a 6 G drive and USB (no firewire) and New World Rom. My success to date has been extracting yaboot from the rpm file, and copying that, install/vmlinux and install/ramdisk.image.gz onto a small HFS partition on the hard drive. The yaboot.conf resembles: image = vmlinux label = install append = "ramdisk_size=64000 load_ramdisk=1" initrd = hd:10,hdramdisk.image.gz I can boot to the OpenFirmware monitor, and start yaboot with: boot hd:10,\yaboot Following that with: boot> install This gets as far as booting... And hangs. I tried copying the vmlinux and ramdisk-text.image.gz from the YellowDog 2.0 distribution, and these tools will boot, but I can't install from the 1.2 CDROM (the installation scripts are looking for Pomona.) Would someone have a clue? Or better yet, an old copy of the Champion install ISO? For background, I'm not a strong Mac guy, but I've been hacking Unix since the mid 80s. and Linux since the mid-1990s. Thanks, Clif -- ... Clif Flynt ... http://www.cwflynt.com ... [email protected] ... .. Tcl/Tk: A Developer's Guide (3'd edition) - Morgan Kauffman .. .20'th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference: Sep 23-27 New Orleans, LA, USA. ............. http://www.tcl.tk/community/tcl2013/ ............ _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list - [email protected] Unsuscribe info: http://lists.fixstars.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:us.fixstars.com'
