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I said I'd drop you a list of the things I went through but you seem to |
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have |
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got a pretty similar list so I'll comment on what you've got here and |
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what I did or didn't do on the G3 iMac... |
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These comments are also for the handbook maintainer... I had intended |
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to write everything up and ship it off but this thread seems as good a |
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place |
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to write things as any... |
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> It seems I may have needed to have a kernel called 'vmlinux' for |
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> yabootconfig to work. |
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I couldn't get yabootconfig to work at all, even with a vmlinux kernel. |
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I resorted to doing the yaboot.conf by hand (with a bit of help from |
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prior |
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versions that I had to install to work out what should and shouldn't go |
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in |
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the file in certain places... the descriptions are a bit vague for a |
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yaboot |
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newbie I'm afraid). |
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> The instructions don't require a separate /boot partition for ppc |
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> but all the examples have one. |
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True... I just have one partition (it's a play box) and created a /boot |
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dir in that. |
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> The kernel creation gives "emerge =vanilla-sources-2.4.24", but |
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> "emerge ppc-sources" with no version numbers was what I required. |
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True. |
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> The airport module is not included on the g3 cd's I downloaded so |
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> there was no way to use the wireless card. |
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Don't have a wireless card on the iMac so can't comment... |
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> 1. downloaded and burned a G3 specific ISO. |
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I used the 2 CD set - the second has pre-compiled stuff. |
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It is, however, unclear in the site docs when this CD should be |
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used. There's a step which says "copy everything for portage" or |
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some such and the implication is that the second CD should be |
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copied here as well. It shouldn't - it comes after the reboot. |
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> dhcpcd eth0 |
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> [in the instructions but I really shouldn't have needed] |
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I didnt. |
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> mount /dev/hda11 /mnt/root |
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> mount /dev/hda12 /mnt/root |
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Did you really do that? Or was one /home? |
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> tar -xvpjf /mnt/cdrom/g3-stages/stage3-g3-1.4_final.tbz2 |
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Note to handbook maintainer: the instructions had |
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/mnt/cdrom/stages and not /mnt/cdrom/g3-stages. Either |
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the CDs need fixing or the handbook needs to note the |
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alternative name if it doesn't already. |
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> cp -R /mnt/cdrom/distfiles/* /mnt/root/usr/portage/distfiles/ |
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Hmmm... I don't have the -R in my notes... |
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It's at this point that I copied the packages off the CD to the |
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portage tree. |
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> emerge ppc-sources |
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Since I was using the CD, I used emerge --usepkg ppc-sources |
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to tell emerge to try the local stuff first. The name is different from |
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the docs though. |
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> mount /proc |
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Hmmm... I don't have this in my list... |
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> yabootconfig |
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I couldn't get yabootconfig to work at all. I ended up editing |
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/etc/yaboot.conf and running ybin manually. |
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> emerge syslog-ng |
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I couldn't get this installed due to an http error(!) Finally resorted |
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to sysklogd which went in like a charm. |
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After that the reboot worked and things are reasonable. I emerged |
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a bunch of stuff and it seems reasonable, apart from |
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KDE and GNOME not wanting to work (they did under YDL). I |
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suspect the lack of memory on this box (64Mb) is the problem. After |
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some messing around with fluxbox and blackbox, neither of which |
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seemed to want to work 'coz they couldn't find a diff file on the |
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network somewhere(!), I got openbox installed which proved there's |
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nowt wrong with my X setup (I'd even redone the kernel with extra |
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things trying to get the other 2 to work - I knew twm did but I wanted |
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extra verification). I settled on windowmaker 'coz I wanted something |
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that automatically recognised the mouse and the function keys from |
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the off. (I assume openbox will but I didn't want to spend time working |
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through config files - windowmaker just works!) |
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Having done an install on the PC a while back through the compile-it-all |
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route, I was happier with the install-pre-compiled stuff for getting a |
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basic |
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system installed. I may compile the lot from scratch now! |
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Thanks to the maintainers for a nice distro and the instructions, even |
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if |
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there're a few hiccoughs in there. |
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Josh, I can't see that you've done that much different from me in |
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the install - certainly not where you'd lose the keyboard, unless |
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there's something laptop specific in the kernel config for a keyboard... |
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laptop's are strange beasts sometime... Sorry I can't do anything but |
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verify that the hiccoughs you've seen can be reproduced... |
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Rod (new to gentoo) |
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