[ydl-gen] Historical Project

[Clif Flynt]

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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