Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

["Richard (MQ)" <osl2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry Stotler wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Richard (MQ) <osl2008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Just finished installing RC1 on G3 iMac from 1997 - looks pretty good.
>
> Speed and RAM?

Same machine as in last week's mails - 450MHz PPC cpu, 512M RAM

> > First stage of installation says it will reboot now, but doesn't - X window
> > goes black except for a cursor, other ttys continue as before and top shows
> > > 99% idle. Forcing a reboot results in fsck check on restart (i.e.
> > something wasn't umounted). Anyone else have this before I raise a bug?
>
> Don't have that problem on my Wallstreet.  It reboots fine and then
> finishes the installation after reboot.

I think I will try repeating the installation with only 1 stick of RAM -
mainly to check that it will work with that amount. Then I'll look out
for the same behaviour.

Am I right in thinking that a "Wallstreet" is essentially the same beast
as my G3, but as a laptop? Probably some important differences under the
cover though.

> > Once system is up, GUI login screen is impossible to navigate with keyboard
> > alone (i.e. no mouse) - can't even readily select a console login. Is this
> > intentional - looks like a bug to me.
>
> Don't have the problem either.  Everything works just fine.  Only
> irritating thing I have seen is that I still have the kernel panic on
> the MESH controller that only seems to affect that machine.  It's
> usually fine after it reboots.  Had that since v10.0

Another thing to look out for when I repeat the installation. I may try
to use an external USB drive this time, I know it's only the slowest
incarnation of that bus, but I want to see if it will fly.

> > Only other thing I noticed was the ever-changing DHCP addresses noted
> > elsewhere - happens on PPC / iMac too!
>
> Haven't noticed that on SuSE.  Have seen it on Fedora 8 though.  Ended
> up just assigning an IP for that box.  Maybe it's a kernel problem.

Either way it seems not to be specific to PPC.
-- 
Cheers
Richard (MQ).
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