Upgrading Kernel & Getting MacOnLinux working...

[Z3K3]

Well, it seems that MOL (MacOnLinux) was installed automatically from the 3.0.1 cds. (i chose workstation for the install type), but... it kept giving strange errors about requiring certain mol-kmods, doing a:

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 startmol --list

This told me that my kernel and the mol-kmods were not the same and that I should rebuild my mol-kmods from source... well.. why re-invent the wheel?

I browsed into the FTP updates for 3.0.1 (fyi: yum uses the 3.0 archives still, so doing a...

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yum update

... advised me that the kernel, and MOL were all currently the newest versions:

Here is the URL for the server I used (its fast!)
http://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-3.0.1/ppc/

I then dropped to shell and did the following:

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wget http://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-3.0.1/ppc/kernel-2.4.22-2g.ppc.rpm
wget http://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-3.0.1/ppc/mol-0.9.69-1a.ppc.rpm
wget http://ftp.sunsite.utk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/yellowdog/updates/yellowdog-3.0.1/ppc/kernel-source-2.4.22-2g.ppc.rpm

You probably don't require the kernel-source.. but its always handy to have.

After downloading the files i ran:

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rpm -Uhv kernel-2.4.22-2g.ppc.rpm

- complained a bit about yaboot.conf (no biggy)

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rpm -Uhv kernel-source-2.4.22-2g.ppc.rpm
rpm -Uhv mol-0.9.69-1a.ppc.rpm

I then rebooted, read the http://www.maconlinux.org/ site, and tweaked the config files, and MOL is now working great!

[kamika]

do you have network on OSX while running it via mol?