Hello, larrystotler@netscape.net wrote:
I never do an upgrade to begin with. I just do a fresh install on another drive and then work the kinks out. Just like me, my earlier experiences were very negative. But 10.0 -> 10.1 went without any trouble on my Pegasos PPC. Heck, to get mplayer to compile properly on my 2.4Ghz celeron, I had to go from v10.0(seg faulted, gccv4.02) to v9.3(compiled properly). Of course, on that machine, it will never do anything but re-encode movies and play them, so no big deal, andmplayer isn't exactly the easier program to set up. First of all, you don't need to compile, packman has it available. Anyway it's strange, I recompiled the packman MPlayer rpm on PPC, and did not have any trouble. But I must admit, that their source rpm includes a good number of gcc4 related patches.
Wow - a Gig needed to do an upgrade.
My Pegasos has just 256MB, and the upgrade went without any trouble. The only thing I did is that I used the 'start_shell' boot parameter, and activated swap before starting up YaST. About 150M of swap was used.
My first install of SuSE was on a P75 w/ 32MB RAM and ran X. S.u.S.E 4.2 on 486 with 16MB of RAM and half of the HDD was dedicated to Linux. That was 150MB, with X, games and Netscape, and plenty of free space :-) Bye,
-- CzP http://peter.czanik.hu/