YDL installer vs Slackintosh

[Stephen Dill]

Thanks for the reply Derick.
I reviewed the documentation at YDL and found the interesting following:
[quote] Apple Power Mac G5 1.8GHz G5, 2003-04 Notes:
	• The ATI Radeon X800 XT graphics card is non-functional. [end]
That's a fairly new note. I didn't find it a couple of months ago.  
Also I asked YDL directly in an e-mail about my configuration  
(specifically mentioning my X800 card and got a yes it'll work reply.  
I guess they uncovered the problems after my query and only recently  
found the card is unworkable. Perhaps YDL could check what Slackintosh  
is doing to support it. Kills it for me and YDL as I have no other  
card to use. I am glad I didn't buy YDL after all.
Regards...

On Mar 10, 2008, at 8:09 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:

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> Hi Steve:
>
> I've heard of Slackware Linux years ago, way back in the early days.
> They had a different reputation than Red Hat or even Debian, back
> then.  I'm surprised they, or someone else, decided to make the time  
> to
> support a branch for the mac.
>
> Regarding the difficulties you reported is it possible that there are
> components or other hardware which are not native or original Apple
> hardware which came with your G5?  You may want to review the hardware
> support page for YDL 6 where your machine is discussed.
>
> All the best...
>
> On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 23:17:17 -0400
> Stephen Dill <sadill at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I wonder what the difference is between the Slackintosh and YDL
>> installers. I can get Slack to install but the installer for YDL
>> won't get past the first screen that comes up after pressing enter
>> to install. The last lines have something like cpu99 kick, then the
>> install gives up. Isn't cpu99 a 32 bit thing? Any clues? Thanks,  
>> Steve
>> Power Mac G5
>>   Model Identifier:	PowerMac7,3
>>   Processor Name:	PowerPC G5  (3.0)
>>   Processor Speed:	1.8 GHz
>>   Number Of CPUs:	2
>>   L2 Cache (per CPU):	512 KB
>>   Memory:	1.5 GB (4 stick)
>>   Bus Speed:	900 MHz
>>   SATA HDD 2 drives
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