YDL 4 on Beige G3 ?

[Geert Janssens]

Eddie Bindt wrote:
> 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 ,,,,
> 
This I was aware of. But I was willing to try to install an unsupported 
system, as I imagined the problems would only be booting. I wasn't aware 
of the missing kernel patch though.

>  ...
> 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 !!!
> 
Thank you for this information and the available kernel. I will try next 
week to install it, and report back on success/failure.


Cheers,

Geert Jan