[ydl-gen] Historical Project

[jh]

The stuff you need is there. Go up a level to

http://ftp.caliu.cat/pub1/distribucions/yellowdog/releases/yellowdog-3.0

and pick one. I've successfully run 3.0 on a powerbook 3400. The Mac 
specific parts are down in the tree. For example, for version 6.0, 
yaboot and ofboot are in:


  /pub1/distribucions/yellowdog/releases/yellowdog-6.0/os/ppc/mac/

The 6.0 distribution has iso images, too. See:


  /pub1/distribucions/yellowdog/releases/yellowdog-6.0/os/images/

Best of luck.

jh

On 7/28/13 2:03 PM, Clif Flynt wrote:
> Hi,
>    I have a need to prove that some 20'th century software can run with
> only 20'th century software on 20'th century Apple hardware.  (It's
> complicated and has to do with a court case.)
>
>    The package I need to demonstrate was supported on Linux, but not
> MacOS 9.
>    
>    I believe that if I can install YellowDog 1.2 or Champion Server 1.2
> or (possibly) ppcLinux 2000, the rest of the project will be trivial.
>
>    I've found the repository at
> http://ftp.caliu.cat/pub1/distribucions/yellowdog/releases/champion-1.2
>
>    This site has the contents of what I believe was the install ISO, but
> no bootable iso image (though the instructions suggest that there was
> such an image).
>
>    I'm working with a gray clamshell iBook (model 2453), with a 6 G
> drive and USB (no firewire) and New World Rom.
>
>    My success to date has been extracting yaboot from the rpm file,
> and copying that, install/vmlinux and install/ramdisk.image.gz onto
> a small HFS partition on the hard drive.
>
>    The yaboot.conf resembles:
> image = vmlinux
>       label = install
>       append = "ramdisk_size=64000 load_ramdisk=1"
>       initrd = hd:10,hdramdisk.image.gz
>
>    I can boot to the OpenFirmware monitor, and start yaboot with:
> boot hd:10,\yaboot
>
>    Following that with:
>
> boot> install
>
>    This gets as far as
> booting...
>
>    And hangs.
>    
>    I tried copying the vmlinux and ramdisk-text.image.gz from the
> YellowDog 2.0 distribution, and these tools will boot, but I can't
> install from the 1.2 CDROM (the installation scripts are looking for
> Pomona.)
>
>    Would someone have a clue?  Or better yet, an old copy of the
> Champion install ISO?
>
>    For background, I'm not a strong Mac guy, but I've been hacking Unix
> since the mid 80s. and Linux since the mid-1990s.
>
>    Thanks,
>    Clif
>

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