mol-0.9.71_pre8 HOWTO?

[Steven Mezzadri]

Mat,

I have only been able to get Mac OS 9 to work up through YellowDog 4.0, but
not any releases since then.  With changes in the glibc libraries, gcc
compiler, and kernel, I get the same errors you're speaking of and cannot
compile the modules.  I have tried compiling the modules on older versions
of the compiler, with the newer kernels, but then when using insmod it
complains that the compiler used for the modules is older than the compiler
used for the kernel and it fails. 

I have decided to just stick with Yellowdog 4.0 and I update or compile
newer software (like firefox, rdesktop, mozilla) from rpm or source in order
to have the latest and greatest versions.  YDL 4 is new enough that it has
decent hardware support.

I also have found on older hardware like yours (500mhz) that GUIs (like
gnome, kde) respond very slowly.  Another benefit of an older version of
Linux like YDL 4 is that the machine will appear much faster.  For example,
I like KDE 3.1-3.3, as they are lightning fast compared to 3.4+ when running
on the older 350 mhz machines we have here with 128 mb ram.

Henry Leinhos, who also participates in this discussion group, was a big fan
of Fedora and he was working on a MOL for Fedora 5, but I haven't heard back
if he has had any success.

I wish you luck, and if you would like any help getting it to work on
YellowDog 4, I'd be happy to assist you.

~Steve~



-----Original Message-----
From: mol-general-bounces at lists.maconlinux.org
[mailto:mol-general-bounces at lists.maconlinux.org] On Behalf Of Mat
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:30 PM
To: Mac-on-Linux General Discussion List
Subject: mol-0.9.71_pre8 HOWTO?

Hello everyone!
I have been reading the forum for a while, but never tried to install MOL.I
used several years ago, with a Yellow Dog distribution with Mac OS 9.
But for I have read in the threads, I see things have change a bit.
I am running Fedora Core 5 in a G4 500 DP with 1 GB of RAM.
My Kernel is 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5smp.
My HD it is partitioned in 2 parts.One has MAC OSX 10.3.9 and the other has
the Linux.
I have download MOL mol-0.9.71_pre8.tar.bz2.
I read about patches, Kernel modules and a lot of stuff, but I can't find
any of that in package I have download.Also I can't find any HOWTO or MAN
page for installing these Kernel Modules.
I follow the instructions that you can find in the MOL web site, but I get
lots of ERRORS while in "make" the package.
I am not a Linux geek, so it is getting a bit hard for me to make this
AMAZING application work.
So my question would be,is there any up to date installation guide or HOWTO,
that includes Kernel modules, patches and MOL itself?
I know this question will make sevral of you not very happy, but I am stuck.

Thank you very much in advance



Matias VAlentin


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