Re: Installing 8.1 on a Beige G3

[fixerb@national.shitposting.agency]

Oh boy, long time distractions are fun.

So as Michael advised, I stripped the machine as much as I could and
ended up with 128 MBs of RAM, the HDD and pretty much nothing else.
The downclocking was a nightmare, since Apple in all its wisdom
decided that regular pin spacings are for PCs. After some time
I managed to bridge all of the necessary connections with some bent
jumper insides and some isolation tape.

On 2019-08-02 07:18, Michael Kronsteiner wrote:
> i dont think 266/333 MHz will make much of a feelable difference on a
> g3 running netbsd, but hey if you can, you can.

Well, I got the machine to the factory 266mhz and you were completely
right, nothing has changed. Getting it even lower was interesting 
though.
At 233mhz it couldn't do anything with the disk. Timeouts would stay at
the same one fsbn and it even delayed the shutdown (during disk sync)
a minute or two, so that was interesting.

> would be nice to keep us updated and maybe someone can include this in
> the "notes on models" section of the documentation?

Speaking of that, it'd be nice if someone included a note in the netboot
setup guide about the next-server option in dhcpd.conf. When I was 
setting
up the netboot, the bootloader would find the export path, but the addr
displayed stayed at 0.0.0.0 until I added that to the config.

But back to the thing, I'm still getting those timeouts and it's still 
really slow.
Does anyone have any other idea I can try?