YDL 4.0

[Rick Thomas]

In any case, I'm determined to give it a try!  I'll post my results
on this list.

Rick


On Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 07:31 PM, Rick Thomas wrote:

> I'd be surprised if you couldn't run YDL-4 on an OldWorld machine.

> The worst that I can imagine happening is that you would have to
> build your own kernel (or download it from somebody else who built
> it) and boot it with BootX, which is freely available on the web,
> if not on the YDL-4 CDs.  So far as I know, BenH hasn't announced
> plans to drop support of OldWorld hardware.  And the utilities are
> all fairly system independent.
>
> Rick
>
> On Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at 07:23 PM, sloopy wrote:
>
>>>>
>
>>
>> Yes they said at the posting of the YDL roadmap that Old World 
>> machines
>> will not be supported... i have talked with a TSS/YDL employee about
>> this, and it is true but YDL4 'should' work on OW machines, its just
>> that bootx and quik will not be included in the official release, 
>> and no
>> support will be given...
>>
>> ok the bad news is over...
>>
>> on to the good news...
>>
>> i will be working on makeing a how-to on installing YDL4 on Old World
>> machines when YDL4 is released. the 2.6.6 kernel should work on old
>> world, as i am running a 2.6.5 on my 8500 currently.
>
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