Hi, I am trying to install 7.1 on a beige G3 MT. I partitioned the hard disk by, hm what's the english name, "Laufwerke konfigurieren" everything looked fine. Then the computer starts quite normally into the installer but it can't find the device. I tried to partition the bl.. disk with pdisk and the installer of LinuxPPC. pdisk found the disk but afterwards yast didn't. The LinuxPPC installer failed completely. I'm rather desperate. I'd appreciate any idea. Thiemo -- root weiss, was er tut. Wicht weiss es nicht. Halb Wicht, halb root. Geht das gut? thiemo@gmx.ch
Thiemo Kellner schrieb am 21:37 Uhr +0200: ^^ As you can see above, I'm German-speaking, too...;-)
I am trying to install 7.1 on a beige G3 MT. I partitioned the hard disk by, hm what's the english name, "Laufwerke konfigurieren" everything looked
"Disc Setup" or something similar...
fine. Then the computer starts quite normally into the installer but it can't find the device. I tried to partition the bl.. disk with pdisk and the installer of LinuxPPC. pdisk found the disk but afterwards yast didn't. The LinuxPPC installer failed completely.
Well, did you set the partition type to "A/UX swap" for the swap partition and "A/UX root" for the root partition with Apple's "Disc Setup"? hth, Christian -- Christian Schmidt schmidtc@chemie.uni-hamburg.de
As you can see above, I'm German-speaking, too...;-)
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"Disc Setup" or something similar...
Hm, right.
Well, did you set the partition type to "A/UX swap" for the swap partition and "A/UX root" for the root partition with Apple's "Disc Setup"?
Yes, I did, at first though I made a couple more of partitions but I had a "A/UX swap" and a "A/UX root". Then I tried with only a HFS for MacOs 9.1 and the rest as "unbestimmt" or what it is called in German. To no avail, however. Maybe I should mention that the hardware isn't quite original anymore. I resume: original MB, sound and video card and HD. The ATAPI CD-ROM has been replaced by an SCSI Pioneer DR12x. Then a Linksys EtherPCI Combo II and a Keyspan USB-PCI card. That's it. I intend to use it as firewall. ;) So long Thiemo -- Thiemo Kellner Tösstalstrasse 146 CH-8400 Winterthur Tel./Fax: 052/232'26'41 http://home.sunrise.ch/thiemo/home.html
Thiemo Kellner schrieb am 20:33 Uhr +0200:
Well, did you set the partition type to "A/UX swap" for the swap partition and "A/UX root" for the root partition with Apple's "Disc Setup"?
Yes, I did, at first though I made a couple more of partitions but I had a "A/UX swap" and a "A/UX root". Then I tried with only a HFS for MacOs 9.1 and the rest as "unbestimmt" or what it is called in German. To no avail, however.
Hmm...
Maybe I should mention that the hardware isn't quite original anymore. I resume: original MB, sound and video card and HD. The ATAPI CD-ROM has been replaced by an SCSI Pioneer DR12x. Then a Linksys EtherPCI Combo II and a Keyspan USB-PCI card. That's it. I intend to use it as firewall. ;)
Looks a kind of weird.. As you wrote before, your Mac is one of the beige G3's, isn't it? So the internal HD is an IDE one. Which way do you boot from the Suse CD? IMHO you should use BootX... When the kernel is booting, can you see any output concerning your HD Controller? Try <Alt-F2> somewhere during the first steps of the installation procedure. You should then get a kind of "emergency shell". Typing "dmesg" should show the kernel output from your system boot. I don't know if the installer's system also contains "less". Maybe you could pipe the output through less ("dmesg|less") so that you can read it screen by screen. Otherwise try scrolling up with <Shift-PgUp>. Thus, you should get further information about how much of your hardware is recognized by the kernel. hth, Christian -- Christian Schmidt schmidtc@chemie.uni-hamburg.de
As you wrote before, your Mac is one of the beige G3's, isn't it? So the internal HD is an IDE one.
Yepp, just right.
Which way do you boot from the Suse CD? IMHO you should use BootX...
Sure.
When the kernel is booting, can you see any output concerning your HD Controller?
pmac_ide: enabling ide bus 0 pmac_ide: enabling ide bus 1
Try <Alt-F2> somewhere during the first steps of the installation
This trick didn't work. However, when I autoloaded modules I got a complete dmesg and, well, there were only abouve two lines about ide. No hint of a found ide device. I am trying to install on a 217 MB scsi MO, however I only could format it but not partition. So long Thiemo -- Thiemo Kellner Tösstalstrasse 146 CH-8400 Winterthur Tel./Fax: 052/232'26'41 http://home.sunrise.ch/thiemo/home.html
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