Anyhow, the little bugger (it hasn't told me it's name yet) is up and running OS 9.1 quite snappily. Thanks to Maclover5's answering my question about the ram config, I bought a stick of 256 and now the little skudderbumpkins has 320mb of ram.

My copy of YDL should arrive soon. Wish me luck.

(BTW, even my husband thinks this is a cute computer.)

BTW, have you used YDL before on a new-world PowerMac? How good is hardware support and performance? I've been playing with Linux a bit on my iMac but so far I haven't found a version I like. Mandrake Linux 9.1 is the best so far.

good luck with your new baby!

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BTW, have you used YDL before on a new-world PowerMac? How good is hardware support and performance? I've been playing with Linux a bit on my iMac but so far I haven't found a version I like. Mandrake Linux 9.1 is the best so far.

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The blueberry 350 slot load I bought off of evilBay hath landed. The folks at Andale charge a lot for shipping, but I daresay I've never seen an item so completely packed. They used that expanding foam stuff in the case. 3 of me could've sat on the box and done no harm.

Anyhow, the little bugger (it hasn't told me it's name yet) is up and running OS 9.1 quite snappily. Thanks to Maclover5's answering my question about the ram config, I bought a stick of 256 and now the little skudderbumpkins has 320mb of ram.

My copy of YDL should arrive soon. Wish me luck.

(BTW, even my husband thinks this is a cute computer.)

68K's liberated: 4
68Ks adopted to loving homes: 2
PowerMacs adopted: 1

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Hamtaro happens to be taken by my iMac

SameGame is a VERY good game on linux! I played it with LinuxPPC on my iMac a long while back... :LOVED IT:

anyway... I think you'd be happy with YDL.. espcecially on a newworld... hardware support and performance are VERY good with YDL as I've heard... better thanmandrake at least...

And hooo-boy is my write up for OS News going to rip YDL a new zipcode on that one.

It will not, no matter how many times, give me the graphical installer. It says that the X system fails and kicks me over to text. And then Disk Druid says I have no free space -- depite the fact that I have just formatted the disk -- and won't let me edit the partitions on the drive at all.

I'm going to try installing with the apple 1 button mouse and see if that makes a difference. (I have a 2 button logitech optical in at the moment -- a year old, very vanilla mouse.)

Anyhow, trust me, the review is going to start out with me setting the Wand of Sarcasm (tm) to "Deep Fry". I've installed W9x, WME, OS 8, OS X, BeOS, and Corel Linux without a hitch. This kind of failure in an OS which claims to be tailored to apple hardware (and you can't get more stock than an iMac) is inexcuseable.

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Skudderbumpins is a good name, but I'm also considering Figwit, as all my Gseries macs have had LoTR related names. (Glorfindel, Galadriel)

(if you don't know figwit, google it. it's a pretty funny story.)

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the iMac has ATi Rage 128 pro (I believe) video, so maybe if you typed "install -atyfb" in there...

It detects that I have a rage 128 chipset, imac display, apple keyboard and a 2 button USB mouse.

Grrr.

I've subbed to the noobie YDL list. Hopefully somebody will get me sorted.

anyway... I've NEVER gotten mandrake 8.2 to work on the 7300

Linux on OldWorld isn't something that impresses me too much...

if I can get 10.1 working on the 7300, and 10.2 workin' on the Blue/White G3... I'll be UberHappy

good luck in getting iMac+YDL working.

Anyway, just and idea. Maybe it is just YDL that's messed up .

Everybody kept saying I had to format the drive to "undefined".

It wasn't until one of the people on the YDL list said something like, don't format it, you want it partitioned and let linux format it, that I finally got somewhere.

I went to the *partition* tab in disk utilities and lo and behold partitioned it into undefined.

After that, it installed without a hitch.

Of course, the instructions never mention the partition trick, and the gurus on the list never seemed to understand that telling someone to format a disk is not the same as telling them to partition it.

Of course... it'll be a few days (or weeks) before I have it all downloaded... but if it runs reliably and easily as a server on the b/w g3 and/or the 7300 it'll be worth it to me...

Yep, I'm downloading it too . It's averaging 21 hours per disc image, so I might not be able to get all three downloaded before I leave . Anyway, glad you got it running. I thought it might be the whole unformatted thing . Keep us informed on its performance just in case we all can't test it out ourselves.

I guess that all this downloading I'll be doing will probably stop me from posting@MLA (seeing as how I'm on dialup)

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alas... it would have been a perfect idea were i still in journalism@RVHS...

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