[K12OSN] Slightly OT- installing Yellow Dog

Tue Sep 20 22:16:32 UTC 2005

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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