"Richard (MQ)"
Finally got images for PPC with matching MD5 sums, and now I'm confused about booting. As suggested in various places, openSUSE-11.1-Beta5-NET-ppc.iso won't boot on my G3 iMac. Nor will openSUSE-11.1-Beta5.1-NET-ppc.iso - this was more of a surprise.
Please file a bugreport if 5.1 does not work. WE need to investigate this closer.
I checked the hardware with the 11.0 version, that boots fine but install dies with the expected message about a locked storage subsystem.
I saw the extra directory "11.1B5_PPC_Hotfix" but (a) is this relevant to my platform (neither Pegasos nor Efika) and (b) if so, how do I use teh files?
No, not.
I was so happy when I saw the image files and this is so frustrating...
Alternatively, is there a way of using the 11.0 boot media, maybe by modbprobe-ing the relevant driver module?
Not that I'm aware of. Please ask also on the ppc mailing list.
PS - Beta5 looks generally good on i586, though I see the same problems reported elsewhere
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