YDL FAQ for Old world Macs

[Norberto Quintanar]

--- Geert Janssens <> wrote:

> Well, I know it can be done too... I have personally installed and
> used YDL 
> 4.0 on my OW mac before it died. The major issue was, that the
> kernel that 
> shipped with YDL 4.0 couldn't boot OW macs. There is a newer kernel
> (2.6.10) 
> in the yum repository now, that does boot (seeing the reports on
> this list). 
> With this kernel, I would imagine installing (not upgrading!) boils
> down to:
> 
> - Put the kernel in the Linux kernels folder in Mac OS
> - Put the install image on Mac OS
> - Configure BootX to use the above kernel and install image
> - Reboot and install.
> - Upon next reboot, tell BootX not to use the install image.
> - Possibly after boot into YDL, you may need to add
> alias eth0 bmac
> into /etc/modprobe.conf to get the builtin network controller to
> work (G3)
> - Additional tweaks are needed to get some sound, but they are not
> OW 
> specific, but YDL4.0 specific.
> 
> Of course, the above is theoretical, I can't verify it anymore. It
> also deals 
> with a fresh install. Upgrading is much more difficult, because of
> deeply 
> nested dependency issues. (As a sidenote, Suse Linux on x86 has
> really 
> figured out how to make this kind of version upgrades childsplay,
> hats off).
> 
> Likely, a YDL 4.01 CD will be much easier to work with, as it comes
> with the 
> new kernel already. Maybe if you have some spare time, you could
> try the 
> above procedure and see if it's still as complicated as with the
> original YDL 
> 4.0 ?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Geert Jan


I'll try the new kernel.

Thanks 

Norberto

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