Powerbook

[Roger Myers]

Nicholas S-A wrote:

>> Hello
>>
>> I have recently bought an old 15" Black Keyboard G3 Powerbook which I 
>> think is a 233 processor, it does not have USB or FIREWIRE, just 
>> ethernet and SCSI.
>>
>> I would like to know if the current release of YDL will install on 
>> the machine. I only really want to use the machine for Internet, text 
>> editing and learning PERL.
>>
>> Any help or advice would be warmly welcomed
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Roger Myers
>
>
> I have a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet (233 Mhz model, 13" screen) that is 
> running OS 9 and YDL 3.0.1. The big problem is install space. mine has 
> a 2GB HD, and my partitions are about 80MB for OS9 (required for 
> BootX, which is needed unless you use Quik, which is unstable), 512MB 
> for swap, and 1.4GB for YDL. it is using KDE and has everything 
> stripped down, e.g. no OpenOffice,etc. So, it you are trying to run 
> YDL, it is limited unless you have a 4GB HD version. However, it runs 
> all the apps it has very nicely. The only problems I had were getting 
> ethernet working, I ended up just not using the GUI and using route, 
> etc manually.
> Hope that helps!
> Nick
>
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Thanks Nick

The machine doesn't actually have a HDD, so I have canibalised a 5Gb 
Drive from a compaq.. Looks like I should give YDL 3.0.1 a shot.

Cheers

Roger.