G3 upgrade

[Bil]

I'm familiar with BSD-like unix, i am not however familiar with macs, I have
the problem booting from a gentoo and YDL cd. Does anyone have any more
information on xboot?

bilen
----- Original Message -----
From: "David R. Landon, Jr." <drlandon@dramcotech.com>
To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:21 PM
Subject: RE: G3 upgrade


> I installed YDL on a 7600/132 with a Newer Tech G3/250 upgrade on a SCSI
> drive with no problems as well as a 7300/180 with a Sonnet G3/400 upgrade
on
> a SCSI drive with no problems. I had to run the XBoot though.
>
> David R. Landon, Jr.
> DMT, Software Engineer
> DRAMCO Machine Technologies
> 5106 Waterlick Rd
> Forest, Virginia 24551
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yellowdog-newbie-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> [mailto:yellowdog-newbie-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]On Behalf Of
> Bert Knabe
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 11:36 PM
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: G3 upgrade
>
>
>
> On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 03:01  PM, Matt Hanes wrote:
>
> > At 03:40 PM 10/31/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> >> Does anyone have experience of installing YDL or any type of linux
> >> (gentoo,debian, etc) on a powerpc upgraded to a g3?
> >
> > I've done it a few times with no problems on both an upgraded 7500 and
> > a PowerComputing machine. I had to install BootX on the Mac partiion
> > first because it wouldn't boot from the CD key, but that was my only
> > problem.
> >
> > This assume that all of my SCSI problems aren't associated with the
> > upgrade cards.
>
> They probably weren't. I couldn't get Yellowdog to install at all until
> I quit trying to install it on a SCSI drive. It installed without a
> hitch on an IDE drive.
>
> Bert
>
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