[K12OSN] Slightly OT- installing Yellow Dog

[cliebow at downeast.net]

i talked to bill_c who built the macintosh kernel..sees no reason that
could not be used via yaboot locally...without installing YZDL..only prob
is....no one has ever tried it 8~)..chuck

> You're better off with YDL 2.3 or maybe 3.0.  4.0 no longer officially
> supports anything that doesn't have the NewWorld booting architecture.
> Beige anythings, including G3's, are OldWorld.  It's my understanding
> that some PowerBook G3's are OldWorld boxes.
> 
> I've done YDL 2.3 on a Power Mac 9600 with good results.  All you need
> is the basic command-line stuff and X11; you don't need GNOME, KDE, or
> any of the rest.  This is the same strategy I used to use with Sun
> UltraSPARCs (RHL 6.2 and SuSE 7.3) before I learned how to netboot them.
> 
> --TP
> 
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:25 -0500, Eric Brown wrote:
> 
> > A while back, I asked questions on getting a beige Mac G3 to netboot off of
> > K12LTSP 4.4.0.  I found out that I couldn't.
> > 
> > The suggestion was to try to install Yellow Dog Linux, and have it work
with
> > the server.  I've burned YD 4.0.1 to cd, stuck it in the CD, shutdown,
start
> > while holding down the C key, and the machine still boots into OS9.  I have
> > a rather large bias against Macs, and this is proving everything I've
always
> > thougth to be true.  I'd like to make this a usable machine.  Any
> > suggestions would be greatly appricated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Eric
> > 
> > Viva la Open Source!
> > 
> > 
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