YDL FAQ for Old world Macs

[David Wadson]

I haven't bothered trying to get YDL4 to install since back in  
December...too busy with other stuff  and YDL 4 didn't seem too keen on  
installing over the network. Old and flakey CD-ROM drives really make  
installing from CD's a real pain in the butt. I already had an NFS  
server with all the YDL 3 files along with a modified comps.xml file  
that stripped out lots of the extra stuff I didn't need in order to get  
a really slim base install - the machines that I was installing on were  
pretty strapped for RAM and hard disk space. Perhaps I'll find some  
time in the near future to try to tackle YDL 4 again...

Dave


On Mar 2, 2005, at 8:49 AM, Norberto Quintanar wrote:

> As an owner of OW macs - 6500/250, G3/266 and one of the contributing
> editors of the YDL FAQ - I've attempted a YDL 4.0 install on them to
> write an FAQ.  IMO, too much work to get up and running.  Admittedly,
> I only gave it an afternoon.  I know it's been done by some people
> and the procedure is out there on the 'net.  There are a lot of
> variables that can go wrong.  I believe the difficulty is the reason
> terrasoft pulled support for OW macs.
> Here is a link to an archived email that was posted on the
> difficulties on installing 4.0.  Again, I know it can be done.  IMO
> YDL 3.0 installs a lot easier and doesn't take a whole day to
> accomplish.
>
> <http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2004- 
> December/016789.html>
>
> --- Geert Janssens <geert.janssens3 at pandora.be> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here's a suggestion for the YDL Faq at sharplabs:
>> YDL doesn't officially support Old World macs anymore. This does't
>> mean YDL
>> can't be installed, but if you try it, you're on your own.
>>
>> I could imagine, someone at the point of trying it, would like as
>> much
>> information on the topic as possible. So maybe, such a topic could
>> be added
>> to the YDL faq, quite visible on the front page. This could be a
>> central
>> place to cover all points where installing on OW differs from
>> installing on
>> NW, like for example the inability to boot from CD's, the use of
>> BootX,...
>>
>> There are already some issues with OW Macs that are dealt with in
>> the FAQ, so
>> maybe they could be referenced from this general topic page.
>>
>> Another issue to add, would be that of bmac being a module with the
>> latest
>> kernel.
>> Solution: add
>> alias eth0 bmac
>> to the /etc/modprobe.conf file.
>> This problem has popped up twice already in the last three days on
>> this
>> mailing list.
>>
>> What do you think ?
>>
>> On a sidenote, my own OW mac died some two weeks ago. I temporarily
>>
>> transplanted my linux identity including all data stored so far
>> into a PC
>> running Mandrake 10.1. Quite a strong point for Linux as a multi
>> platform,
>> hardware independent OS, IMHO.
>>
>> There's no way to revive the poor old G3. Tried everything from
>> changing RAM,
>> starting form MacOS BootDisk, even replacing the boot ROM, zapping
>> the PRAM
>> and any combination of these. I always get a bus error before the
>> OS fully
>> loads. I believe 8 years of service (and that means heavy duty in
>> this camp),
>> has put it over the top. But I consider dying of age to be a
>> wonderful end
>> for a computer. Much better than being dumped :-)
>> I ordered a Mac Mini as a replacement the very same day. So as soon
>> as it
>> arrives, I'll be a happy YDL'er again (at least, if YDL installs
>> already on
>> it).
>>
>> All this also means though, I'm no longer able to test YDL on OW
>> macs, as I
>> don't own one anymore. I'll leave that part to other experienced OW
>> mac users
>> in the future.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Geert Jan
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