Re: mol-0.9.71_pre8 HOWTO?

Steven,

Thank you very much for your advice.I will try to fight a little more 
with Fedora Core 5.
If not I will get back with Yellow Dow 4.0


Mat

Steven Mezzadri wrote:
> Mat,
> 
> I have only been able to get Mac OS 9 to work up through YellowDog 4.0, but
> not any releases since then.  With changes in the glibc libraries, gcc
> compiler, and kernel, I get the same errors you're speaking of and cannot
> compile the modules.  I have tried compiling the modules on older versions
> of the compiler, with the newer kernels, but then when using insmod it
> complains that the compiler used for the modules is older than the compiler
> used for the kernel and it fails. 
> 
> I have decided to just stick with Yellowdog 4.0 and I update or compile
> newer software (like firefox, rdesktop, mozilla) from rpm or source in order
> to have the latest and greatest versions.  YDL 4 is new enough that it has
> decent hardware support.
> 
> I also have found on older hardware like yours (500mhz) that GUIs (like
> gnome, kde) respond very slowly.  Another benefit of an older version of
> Linux like YDL 4 is that the machine will appear much faster.  For example,
> I like KDE 3.1-3.3, as they are lightning fast compared to 3.4+ when running
> on the older 350 mhz machines we have here with 128 mb ram.
> 
> Henry Leinhos, who also participates in this discussion group, was a big fan
> of Fedora and he was working on a MOL for Fedora 5, but I haven't heard back
> if he has had any success.
> 
> I wish you luck, and if you would like any help getting it to work on
> YellowDog 4, I'd be happy to assist you.
> 
> ~Steve~
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mat
> Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 4:30 PM
> To: Mac-on-Linux General Discussion List
> Subject: mol-0.9.71_pre8 HOWTO?
> 
> Hello everyone!
> I have been reading the forum for a while, but never tried to install MOL.I
> used several years ago, with a Yellow Dog distribution with Mac OS 9.
> But for I have read in the threads, I see things have change a bit.
> I am running Fedora Core 5 in a G4 500 DP with 1 GB of RAM.
> My Kernel is 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5smp.
> My HD it is partitioned in 2 parts.One has MAC OSX 10.3.9 and the other has
> the Linux.
> I have download MOL mol-0.9.71_pre8.tar.bz2.
> I read about patches, Kernel modules and a lot of stuff, but I can't find
> any of that in package I have download.Also I can't find any HOWTO or MAN
> page for installing these Kernel Modules.
> I follow the instructions that you can find in the MOL web site, but I get
> lots of ERRORS while in "make" the package.
> I am not a Linux geek, so it is getting a bit hard for me to make this
> AMAZING application work.
> So my question would be,is there any up to date installation guide or HOWTO,
> that includes Kernel modules, patches and MOL itself?
> I know this question will make sevral of you not very happy, but I am stuck.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance
> 
> 
> 
> Matias VAlentin
> 
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