YDL 4.0 on oldworld mac

[David Wadson]

That's why I avoid the CD installs now on the OldWorld machines - most 
of the older drives are flakey reading the CDs.

I had success a Farallon 8960155-00-01 10/100 NIC. The D-Link 
DFE-530TX, which is under $20 at Staples isn't supported by the 
installer though it does work with the included driver and a recompiled 
kernel. If I recall, the AsanteFast 10/100 wasn't supported either.

Is there a special technique to compiling a new install kernel and/or 
ramdisk image that includes support for the OldWorld ethernet adapters? 
Granted, it's quicker to install using a 10/100 NIC that is supported 
by the installer but it would be nice not to have an installer that 
will work on these machines without needing a new NIC.

Dave

On Wednesday, December 8, 2004, at 01:14  AM, Ken Barber wrote:

> On Tuesday 07 December 2004 5:00 pm, Andrew wrote:
>> On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 03:00, Ken Barber wrote:
>>> It can't read the CD-ROM drive.
>>
>> I've hit it. I fiddled with the options (NSF, HTP, FTP, Local CD...) 
>> and
>> none was a go. I eventually got "Insert CD1 in the drive to continue" 
>> or
>> something similar but it still refused to see the disk. Eject then
>> re-insert the CD1 when the said dialog is waiting for an input got it
>> going..
>
> I got the same message, and tried the same thing.  It didn't work for 
> me.  The
> CD reads fine in other drives.
>
> I've decided to go to the 2nd-hand computer junk store a few blocks 
> from here
> tomorrow and get a cheapo NIC (one that the kernel on the install CD
> supports, of course) and do a network install.
>
> Ken