Install on a Beige G3

[Barry]

Thanks to you and to John Wright and others for the suggestions. I
downloaded the current YDL 4, and finally succeeded to get a system on
the machine, and running. But there are a couple problems. Any insight
would be appreciated.

The installer balked the first two times, but actually started on the
third and ran through. Twice (once with python, which would have been
inconvenient) I was told I had CD errors, but I chose to try again and
the installer eventually loaded all the software before crashing, as
explained in the link below.

Of course by using the latest version, I got kernel 2.6.10 installed
along with everything else, but I had 2.6.8 on the Mac partition for
BootX, so I have no modules.

There were two obvious problems: 
1. I had put in a 100mb Adaptec ethernet card but it wasn't recognized
2. The DMA was turned off for my CDROM (blacklisted say the logs)

I copied the newer kernel to the Mac side and tried that. It of course
has its modules and it booted up fine. But I had no useable ethernet.
The logs say it loaded the tulip driver. The logs also show that
pcmcia started. But no ethernet was active. (But the CD DMA was OK).

I guess I'll try compiling a new 2.6.8 kernel for the modules. But
were there problems with Adaptec ethernet cards on those machines?


On Apr 9, 2005 10:23 PM, xlargebear at bellsouth.net
<xlargebear at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Barry
> Why don't you try installing YDL4 in your G3? I have it installed in
> the same kind of computer and it works great.
> If you'd like to install it follow this link for the instructions.
> http://yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?t=381
> F
> 
> 
> On Apr 9, 2005, at 10:07 PM, Barry wrote:
> 
> > I have a beige G3 and have succeeded in installing YDL 2.2 on it, but
> > have failed to get YDL 2.3 or 3.01.
> >
> > My attempt to put YDL 2.3 was some time ago; I don't remember the
> > particulars. I've seen here that people have succeeded with much later
> > versions on a G3, so I thought I'd try again.
> >
> > The YDL 3.01 installer starts OK, but only gets to the third question
> > -- what type of media I'm going to use to install. It's the CD, but
> > the tab key doesn't register here (though it did on the two keyboard
> > questions) to move to 'OK'. The only key that works is space bar
> > registers, and then only once. At that point I'm frozen.
> >
> > I tried Debian (Woody), too, and a similar thing happened. The
> > installer started and I am able to do a question or two about the
> > keyboard but then the installer goes into an endless loop.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > This machine has:
> >
> > A 266 mhz processor
> > 320 megs of ram
> > ATI 3D Rage I/II 215GT video card
> >
> > Also, a usb card -- an OPTi 82C861
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