It works!! Hooray! It works! Here are some notes on my experiences
Please try again. Just copy the suseboot folder from the CD to your boot partition, replace the kernel from the CD with the new one fron BenH's website and name it vmlinux. Then reboot and hold down the option key. This will show you a graphical bootvolume chooser, choose the linux boot partition.
This was a bit weird - the bootvolume chooser you talk about appeared but it only saw my MacOS volume. Before it worked I: marked os-chooser bootable, marked yaboot bootable (again) and chose my Linux Boot volume in the "startup drive" control panel - only that last bit should have worked but I did do the others so I'm reporting it.... I did a little dance when I saw it working.
yaboot should appear now. hit return and the kernel should boot and find your CD and mouse/keyboard. I would recommend yast1 to install, yast2 might work but the mouse will be dead.
yast1 worked quite nicely - once I learned that the spacebar picked packages - no matter how many times I hit the return key or the enter key neither one of them would pick a package....
You should do these things after installation: -boot into console mode and run /sbin/init.d/xsfb start This will generate a fresh /etc/XF86Config for your machine
done
-remove xsfb.rpm (new kernel has newer input layer, xsfb will write wrong mouse device , use `rpm -e xsfb` or yast1 to do that )
done
-update devs.rpm (this package contains the newer device nodes for the new input layer)
done - I had put this rpm that I got last week into my boot drive - since that is a place MacOS can see, and was quite delighted to see that SuSE could see files there as well (although I probably should not have been surprised)
-update some config files:
/etc/XF86Config There is a Section pointer, change the mouse device: Section "Pointer" Device "/dev/input/mice" Protocol "IMPS/2" EndSection
There is a line Defaultcolordepth, change it to a useful value like 24. Possible values are 8,16,24,32.
done - with a lot of handholding - my unix friend insisted I use vi - he says that it is worth the learning curve
/etc/rc.config There is an entry GPM_PARAM=" -t ps2 -m /dev/input/mice"
done
/sbin/init.d/boot.local It should look like that and enables the button emulation, useful if you have the (n)one button mouse. Sound might not work on the new machines:
/sbin/insmod dmasound echo "1" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button_emulation echo "88" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode echo "87" > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode
Those two are where I stopped - my Unix expert friend wondered if maybe these two were mixed up a bit?
This enables the button emulation and maps F12 to middle button and F11 to right button. This is what I use here. More keycodes can be found here: http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Franz.Sirl/inputppc.html
To use your internal modem use wvdial, it can be found in yast -> network setup -> ppp network. kppp might work too, wvdial is recommended.
There are still some issues: screen will be shifted to the left, no idea yet how to solve it.
noticed.
I would like to know what is in your new machine, can you run that script if everything works fine? ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/suse_hw_info.sh
run it as root user with that command: sh suse_hw_info.sh It produces a tar.gz file (30kb) in /tmp, please send me that file directly.
Thank you Olaf for all of your help. My life is so insane that I don't see doing this before monday - but I will do it. Thank you. Cameron .:. -- -- This mirror will show you your enemies. Cameron Bales .:. Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada work: (506)-364-1097 http://www.tantramar.com/ home: (506) 536-3613 http://i.am/cameronbales ---- The current decade shall be known as "The Naughties" ----