YDL on a hopped-up 8600 ... i know it MIGHT, but WILL IT?

[Julius Naim]

Hi Richard

I'm pretty new to YDL and I gave just installed it on my 7600/132 with the
following

CPU XLR8 G3 500
RAM 448 Mb
9GB SCSI HD on built in SCSI
PCI USB/Firewire card (Ratoc PC1FU1P)
PCI UW SCSI card (ADPT 2940)
9GB UW SCSI HD 

The install was rather painless and thanks to the clear simple install
guide;
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/installation/ydl3.0_guide-single.pdf
BootX was easy to configure, capture the cache settings etc

I did run into a problem booting from my SCSI drive but update the kernel to
2.6.5 from http://www.ppckernel.org/ and was up and away.

I wouldn't know about the NICs but the ATA card is a definite.

Have a look at netBSD as an alternative option if you're not going to be
using the machine as a desktop but I don't really know the pros and cons
yet, I've got mountains of old hardware and am trying different options out
myself.  I like the fact it deals with the pre v3 open firmware as the
common linux oldworld BootX solution is a pain on smaller hard drives (and
I'm not bothering with miboot but plan to give quik a go)

Like I say, I'm new to all this just give it a go and see what you run into.

Ta

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Subject: YDL on a hopped-up 8600 ... i know it MIGHT, but WILL IT?

hi all,

brand new here. :D

i've got a Mac 8500/150 with the following upgrades:

        Sonnet Crescendo 333 MHZ G3 CPU upgrade
        Sonnet Tempo66 ATA card w/ two 40 Mb ATA drives (no motherboard
ATA/SCSI drive)
        2 - Asante 696 100bT ethernet cards
        512 MB RAM

currently, with the help of MacSales' XPostFacto, its running
latest-n-greatest OSX 10.3.5 just peachy!  i'm booting from an 8GB partition
on one of the Sonnet-mounted drives ...

i'd like to get a different firewall option that OSX's native ipfw (not even
v2, for pete's sake!).  preferably iptable, or even better pf.

since no ports exsit to MacOSX, AFAIK, my best option is to change OS to a
*NIX sys.

although FreeBSD is, supposedly, an option on PPC now, YDL seems to be a
WHOLE LOT more mac-freindly by its very root-n-nature.

soooo, my simple question is:

can anyone *verify* that YDL will work with the above config?  i know its
not *officiallY* supported ...  perfectly fine with that, just wanna know
that it does/can work.

specific howto/advice/sanity-checks would be VERY MUCH appreciated!

cheers,

richard
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