YDL 4 on Beige G3 ?

[Eddie Bindt]

Eric, Geert and others ...


DONT hit me for bringing the BAD news ...

As you could (??) have read on the YDL website, YDL4 is NOT supported 
on OldWorld machines ,,,,

Saying this, I am very sorry to be the one to tell this list...
The kernel shipped on the YDL4 CD's misses a patch from benh that 
allows this kernel to work on OW (OF-1.0.5) machines .... (the patch is 
in kernel-2.6.9-rc2 ....)

The kernel on the YDL4 CDs wil NEVER work on some oldworld machines ...

YDL did NOT do that on purpose, we just discovered it after the CDs 
where burned ...
That means, you NEED an other kernel to boot and install YDL4 on your 
OldWorld machine

I build one for ANS and also for all other OldWorld machine which 
contains the missing patch.

you can find this kernel at  : 
http://www.shiner.info/?files/Yellow%20Dog%20Linux%204/kernel/

People where asking for upgrade instructions : 
http://www.shiner.info/?manuals/ANS-from-3-to-4.html

adept this to whatever oldworld machine you have, we did it on a 
8500/9600/ANS ...

Xander wrote a little howto on a fresh install 
http://www.shiner.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=37
where he installed on an 7300/200 ...

besides this, some types of machine will allways give trouble ...
Help the community out and publish what you did,
Come over to irc (irc.freenode.net #yellowdog) to help us out ...

Installing might not be easy, after that, it runs great !!!

Eddie


On Nov 28, 2004, at 4:46 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> I'll add a me to to the question (of course, I haven't even tried).
>
> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:48:06 +0100, Geert Janssens
> <geert.janssens3 at pandora.be> wrote:
>> Has anyone already had success setting up YDL 4 on an oldworld machine
>> using BootX ?
>
> IIRC People _have_ gotten YDL4 to work on OldWorld machines, and I
> believe one or two of them may have posted the procedure somewhere
> (not here, otherwise I would've kept & flagged it ;-).
>
>> On the other hand, the Ubuntu kernels are also version 2.6.8, and I 
>> can
>> boot those. Would there be an option omitted in the YDL kernel
>> configuration that make I can't boot it ? BTW, the MacOS 9 partition 
>> is
>> hfs+, although this hasn't mattered until now as all other kernels I
>> used work just fine.
>>
>> Any suggestions ?
>
> I was going to suggest that you give Ubuntu a try if you wanted to use
> the newer softwares but it seems you already did that :)
>
> Others, please correct me if I'm wrong: I'm getting the feeling that
> YDL 4 isn't working that smoothly on a lot of hardware. At the moment
> I've got a nicely functioning YDL 3.0.1-based server on a G3 that's
> working without too many hitches.
>
> The one problem I do have is that I cannot get Windows NT to connect
> to the WebDAV (in Apache 2.0/httpd) server under YDL 3.0.1 BUT I can
> connect to the same WebDAV server from a remote OS X 10.3 machine
> (Finder).
>
> To make things even more quirky, if I switch to using OS X 10.3 as the
> WebDAV server (Apache 1.3) I _CAN_ connect using the Windows NT
> server, so there's something that's changed between Apache 1.3 and
> Apache 2.0 that prevents Win NT from connecting (extra security added
> on connection?)....
>
> My solution (when I know I want to transfer files from
> home-to-work-to-home) is to leave my OS X 10.3 machine on and change
> port :80 forwarding to that machine instead of the YDL server (that
> shuts wdown webserver but what can you do ;) (I suppose I could
> install Apache 1.3 on YDL 3 but the comments on the web sugges that's
> quite an involved process).
>
> Eric.
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