On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:11:09 +0100, Geert Janssens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
For 4.0.0 (if it exists ;) I found that using the kernel available for d/l from the G3 install instructions (URL posted to this list numerous times) was better for installing than the newer one available through yum. I'd done an upgrade-in-place and run into a few dependency "issues" which compromised the quality of my install (the machine was running but KDE couldn't run, period and GNOME was moderately broken). I then did a full clean install (which still has some unresolved issues, the most notable one being SMB not working) but needed to use the boot RAM disk that I d/l from the clean install instructions page. > 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). [EMAIL PROTECTED]@#$ dependencies. Debian (ahem, "that distro that dare not speak its name") seems to be doing a good job of updating/upgrading-in-place as well (my system is become more stable and less buggy with each update/upgrade... problems I thought were caused by me seem to have been magically fixed... now if only Evolution would be polished up a little more I'd be a 100% happy camper). Eric. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
