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On Jan 6, 2004, at 10:30 PM, Kevyn Shortell wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 18:18, Dean Takemori wrote: |
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>> Hello, |
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>> I would like to install Gentoo 1.4 onto an Old World |
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>> machine (8600 w/G3 |
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>> upgrade). The machine is fully functional (in both |
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>> OS9 and Yellowdog |
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>> linux). |
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> Sorry to hear it is not working for you, sadly I have no real other |
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> ideas than that, as I don't have my 8500 working atm to test. The |
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> sources for the cloop and other bits aren't really public yet, we're |
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> still in the process of re-writing our build system, but if you stop on |
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> the irc channel, and ask lu_zero or darkspecter either one of them |
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> could |
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> build or point you to a new build version that what you've got. |
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> Sadly our oldworld support is pretty bad atm, hoping to fix that in the |
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> near future if we can get more people to help out testing oldworld |
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> configs for us. |
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What, me worry? |
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It took me a couple of days, but I built a kernel on a Wallstreet |
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powerbook, |
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which is of course an Old World machine with both IDE and SCSI |
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systems(!) |
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This kernel will boot the live CD and load the cloop module, and will |
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boot the |
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installed gentoo OS just fine, and it will even see the SCSI system. |
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guest $ dmesg | grep -i mesh |
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mesh: configured for synchronous 5 MB/s |
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mesh: performing initial bus reset... |
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scsi1 : MESH |
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guest $ cat /proc/scsi/scsi |
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Attached devices: none |
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guest $ cat /proc/scsi/mesh/1 |
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The driver does not yet support the proc-fs |
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Unfortunately I don't have an external enclosure, nor the right |
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connector |
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for the powerbook right now, so I cannot test beyond that at the moment. |
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And of course there's still the open question of whether or not this |
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kernel |
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will boot an Old World machine that doesn't have any IDE systems in it |
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(ie |
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a desktop PowerMac x500). I'll post more info to the list as it becomes |
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available. |
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So to summarize for the list archives : Progress has been made toward |
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getting Gentoo 1.4 Live(ish) working on Old World PowerMacs. Huzzah! |
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-dean takemori |
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