--- Geert Janssens <> wrote: > Well, I know it can be done too... I have personally installed and > used YDL > 4.0 on my OW mac before it died. The major issue was, that the > kernel that > shipped with YDL 4.0 couldn't boot OW macs. There is a newer kernel > (2.6.10) > in the yum repository now, that does boot (seeing the reports on > this list). > With this kernel, I would imagine installing (not upgrading!) boils > down to: > > - Put the kernel in the Linux kernels folder in Mac OS > - Put the install image on Mac OS > - Configure BootX to use the above kernel and install image > - Reboot and install. > - Upon next reboot, tell BootX not to use the install image. > - Possibly after boot into YDL, you may need to add > alias eth0 bmac > into /etc/modprobe.conf to get the builtin network controller to > work (G3) > - Additional tweaks are needed to get some sound, but they are not > OW > specific, but YDL4.0 specific. > > Of course, the above is theoretical, I can't verify it anymore. It > also deals > with a fresh install. Upgrading is much more difficult, because of > deeply > nested dependency issues. (As a sidenote, Suse Linux on x86 has > really > figured out how to make this kind of version upgrades childsplay, > hats off). > > Likely, a YDL 4.01 CD will be much easier to work with, as it comes > with the > new kernel already. Maybe if you have some spare time, you could > try the > above procedure and see if it's still as complicated as with the > original YDL > 4.0 ? > > Cheers, > > Geert Jan
I'll try the new kernel. Thanks Norberto __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
