Hi Niels,

I know what you mean. I've just tried to install linux (mandrake and
netbsd) on my green apple g3/750 and
everything fails too. An that's a pity, because I like Apple's and linux
very much and don't understand why all of this - installing linux on a
powerpc - is so hard. And I've not even started to begun compiling or
installing my favourite developing tools ... I have the OpenFirmware as
well and miss a BIOS-like feature in a apple computer. I've bought Mac
OS X, but on my g3/288ram it's too damn slow ..

regards,
benny lootens
java developer belgium


Niels Schjøtt Eliasen wrote:

> Hi
> I am just about to give up....
> I have now for more than 4 months been trying to get a recent version 
> of "-current" running on my trusty old Powerbook 3500..
> I installed initially a 1.6.1 version from an ISO-image ... did boot 
> from the CD-ROM and the system did come up and ran flawlessly,,,,
> However looking further into NetBSD, I noticed some "things" that I 
> would like to have running on my box.. one of the being KDE, another 
> Koffice, another Java, another amule... and all of these pointed me in 
> one direction namely "-current".
> Just finding a decent version of current that would allow my box to 
> boot is one thing... after some help from Emmanuel Dreyfus, who 
> pointed me in the "releng" server direction, I managed to get a 
> version from some month back, installed this and I was a happy bunny 
> hoping everrything was ok, and I would be able to compile the packages 
> that I was interested in ...
> But now all h.... broke loose! Sigfaults when compiling, system would 
> hang under load(load means just Apache running) and only one way to 
> get everything running again... hard reboot!
>
> So ... How should I proceed ?? Going forward and try to get "build.sh" 
> working ?? One step at a time (so the build process can complete...)
> Or reinstall everything and leave it as is ?
>
> I hope this is not to much griping. Principally I would prefer using 
> NetBSD..
> I am just about losing faith right now  ....
>
> and I am not even mentioning XFree86....
>
> mvh/kind regards
> Niels S. Eliasen
>