Subject: Re: Installer segfaults on a beige G3
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Simon Vallet <eqdar@castalie.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/19/2003 09:49:36
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:39:46 +0200
richard@uclinux.net wrote:

> > > - sell it and get a PC...will save you much troubles later (o;
> > I saw on the archives that you too are the happy owner of a beige
> > G3... did you sell it ? (o;
> > 
> 
> Yupp (o;
OK, maybe I will :-D

> Lot's of problem not during install...
> 
> - sound driver
> - onboard ethernet packet loss
> - damned slow local tcp/ip traffic (10...20kbytes7sec)
> - bad support for additional r128 pci card
> - doesn't work with 1.6Zsomething at all
doesn't sound so good... especially the packet loss & happy traffic

> Best support for the G3 tower was yellowdog-linux 3.0 so far...
> or stick with OSX (o;
If I don't succeed I'll stick with Debian... runs fine although I have
had some troubles to get it booting... damned buggy OF's

Simon