[ydl-gen] Historical Project

[William Lentz]

I honestly don't think this disto is active anymore, or at least the mailing
list Is not active. I don't develop for YDL or anything, I came here looking
for help when I had a old powermac that I wanted to "JailBreak" with a linux
distro, lets just say now its parted out so bad I don't know if I can ever
get it back going without having a half of another model of it to spare.

-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.fixstars.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-bounces at lists.fixstars.com] On Behalf Of Clif
Flynt
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2013 1:03 PM
To: yellowdog-general at lists.fixstars.com
Subject: [ydl-gen] Historical Project

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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