Hi, Here's a suggestion for the YDL Faq at sharplabs: YDL doesn't officially support Old World macs anymore. This does't mean YDL can't be installed, but if you try it, you're on your own.
I could imagine, someone at the point of trying it, would like as much information on the topic as possible. So maybe, such a topic could be added to the YDL faq, quite visible on the front page. This could be a central place to cover all points where installing on OW differs from installing on NW, like for example the inability to boot from CD's, the use of BootX,... There are already some issues with OW Macs that are dealt with in the FAQ, so maybe they could be referenced from this general topic page. Another issue to add, would be that of bmac being a module with the latest kernel. Solution: add alias eth0 bmac to the /etc/modprobe.conf file. This problem has popped up twice already in the last three days on this mailing list. What do you think ? On a sidenote, my own OW mac died some two weeks ago. I temporarily transplanted my linux identity including all data stored so far into a PC running Mandrake 10.1. Quite a strong point for Linux as a multi platform, hardware independent OS, IMHO. There's no way to revive the poor old G3. Tried everything from changing RAM, starting form MacOS BootDisk, even replacing the boot ROM, zapping the PRAM and any combination of these. I always get a bus error before the OS fully loads. I believe 8 years of service (and that means heavy duty in this camp), has put it over the top. But I consider dying of age to be a wonderful end for a computer. Much better than being dumped :-) I ordered a Mac Mini as a replacement the very same day. So as soon as it arrives, I'll be a happy YDL'er again (at least, if YDL installs already on it). All this also means though, I'm no longer able to test YDL on OW macs, as I don't own one anymore. I'll leave that part to other experienced OW mac users in the future. Cheers, Geert Jan _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
