As an owner of OW macs - 6500/250, G3/266 and one of the contributing editors of the YDL FAQ - I've attempted a YDL 4.0 install on them to write an FAQ. IMO, too much work to get up and running. Admittedly, I only gave it an afternoon. I know it's been done by some people and the procedure is out there on the 'net. There are a lot of variables that can go wrong. I believe the difficulty is the reason terrasoft pulled support for OW macs. Here is a link to an archived email that was posted on the difficulties on installing 4.0. Again, I know it can be done. IMO YDL 3.0 installs a lot easier and doesn't take a whole day to accomplish.
<http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004-December/016789.html> --- Geert Janssens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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' > __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
