Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Dinar Valeev <dinarv@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/06/2012 10:08 AM, Dinar Valeev wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Greg Freemyer<greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>
> >  wrote:
> > > I see that OBS is now building lots of PPC packages.
> >
> > It always had built packaes, since 11.1 it just lost stable releases.
> > > Is it coming as a live CD sometime soon?
> >
> > There is Factory building for ppc in separate project
> > openSUSE:Factory:PowerPC all the time.
> > It is produces netinstall images as well.
> > http://powerpc.opensuse.org/factory/iso/
> >
> > FTP tree:
> > http://powerpc.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/
> >
> > Since a while we have public builds again.
> > > Is there still an install base of PPC machines out there?
> >
> > Yes.
> > > fyi: I looked in the wiki for a status page and didn't see anything.
> >
> > JFYI: we have opensuse-ppc mailing list.
> > Feel free to join and help us to fix failing packages and test
> > openSUSE on Power ;)
>
>
> I am happy to hear of this mailing list, which I just joined, and of the NET
> install iso that I am downloading now. I have a PowerBook G4 Titanium that
> dual boots OS X and Mint 9. Rebuilding and installing a kernel on any
> Debian-based system is a lot more complicated than for openSUSE, and I would
> love to be able to switch.
Beware, it is not stable.

Known issues are:
you should manually install bootloader, by starting shell before and
after installation.
you should use ext3 as fs. (as there is some errors with ext4 which
needs to be investigated)
systemd/journald have issues. You can see it as dhcp client hang on boot.
partitioner crashing during in graphical installation. (use ncurses mode)

Don't forget to report bugs ;)
> Larry
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