November 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

can't seem to order SuSE 7.3 for PPC Linux
by Kevin Hendricks 20 Nov '01

20 Nov '01

Hi Olaf, I just saw the SuSE 7.3 PPC announcement on LinuxToday. Great Work! I tried to go to the order page and basically it tells you to order from local distributors. The only distributor with a website that is specific to Canada is camelot.ca which I just tried but they don't have it listed in their catalogue (they do have SuSE 7.1 for RS6000). None of the other "bookstores" are within two hours drive from my home. I don't want to order from the US unless I have to because they sometimes add "duty" and things and sometimes it gets held at the border for long periods of time. Why isn't SuSE taking direct orders on their website? Wouldn't that make it easier to order? I will keep looking for a distributor that actually has it in Canada. Thanks, Kevin

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FW: Powermac 5500 question
by Simon Troup 20 Nov '01

20 Nov '01

I have a powermac 5500 (built in monitor) on which I have been unable to install either NetBSD (needs another old powermac to zterm commands in through the printer port) or Yellow Dog Linux (get a blank screen when trying to install, no-one seems to know why). My questions is this, will I have similar problems with Suse PPC? I see it is "supported" but that's what those other two OS's said too. Does anyone have Suse 7.2 (7.3?) running on a 5500 and if so were there any special install requirements ? Regards Zim

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Xfree86
by Jaap-Jan 20 Nov '01

20 Nov '01

Hi, Does somebody knows if the Xfree86 of: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/supplementary/X/suse71/4.1.0/xf86-4.1.0-13.… .rpm supports (accelerated) the ATI Rage ultra of my feb 2001 iMac? I also compiled and installed the 2.4.12 kernel, does that work with the Xfree86 of above? thanks, Jaap-Jan

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YAST Sys Admin from ASCII terminal
by David Callaghan 20 Nov '01

20 Nov '01

>From my ASCII terminal, I am able to work with YAST (yast -m -t) for most things. However, when I go into System Administration, User Administration or Group Adminstration, I am not able to save changes, get help or select existing groups or users. F1, F3 and F5 bring me back out to the System Administration menu. Any attempt to leave the screen brings up a dialog box that says that leaving the screen will cause all information on the screen to be lost.

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Re: [suse-ppc] ftp server IP addresses
by David Callaghan 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

>I have gotten BootX to start a Suse install, and am trying to follow the >instructions on the web page Suse Linux from Internet. > >However when I enter the IP address of the ftp server (I've tried both of >them ... 152.2.210.121 and 64.28.67.101) I keep getting "failed to connect to >ftp server." > >How can I find out other servers to try? You can find a list of mirror sites at http://www.suse.com/us/support/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html

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ftp server IP addresses
by Marc Stergionis 19 Nov '01

19 Nov '01

I have gotten BootX to start a Suse install, and am trying to follow the instructions on the web page Suse Linux from Internet. However when I enter the IP address of the ftp server (I've tried both of them ... 152.2.210.121 and 64.28.67.101) I keep getting "failed to connect to ftp server." How can I find out other servers to try? -ms

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Re: [suse-ppc] Download SuSE 7.1 ....
by David Callaghan 18 Nov '01

18 Nov '01

You'll find the list of ftp sites at http://www.suse.com/us/support/download/suse_linux/index.html You should be able to find a mirror site near you for PowerPC. There were some issues under 6.4 for 43p/140; I'm not sure how many are true for 7.1. See http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/projects/ppc/b50tips…

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Re: mySQL client
by David Callaghan 18 Nov '01

18 Nov '01

I like http://www.phpwizard.net/projects/phpMyAdmin/ Its helpful and web-based.

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Re: [suse-ppc] Problem with grep
by David Callaghan 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

Thanks for the help! I actually used Ctrl-D to get out of this. Actually, I was trying to find mysql in php.ini-optimized but I hit enter before I completed the command. I am guilty of being a bad typist, a worse sys admin, and a sniveling newbie, but I *live* to read man pages! :-) Thanks again for everyone's help!

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Re: [suse-ppc] Problem with grep
by Chris Abbey 16 Nov '01

16 Nov '01

David Callaghan wrote: > I just installed 7.1 on an RS6000, and the first thing I did was to >grep mysql, but now I have no prompt. Its like > I'm in vi except I can't exit. I can't do anyhting except type. grep is now searching for the word "mysql" on stdin. Hit Ctrl-C to kill it, or Ctrl-D to send it an EOF so that it will exit normally. man grep to get a better understanding of what happened. > Do I have to manually turn off the machine? not ususally a good idea. ;)

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