Re: [suse-ppc] Hello.. anyone out there on this list ?

On Mon, Aug 29, Michael Mielko wrote:

I got the 1st CD to boot, and the GUI installer to run.... It runs well until it gets to reformatting & Resizing partitions.

i am giving Suse a whole 160 Gig hard drive to play with.. (sdb) ...

Well it will choke on formating & resizing... then proceed to begin install and locks up 1/4 through ..

It did install into RAM most likely. Boot again and create the partitions yourself. Add the 'start_shell' cmdline option. Maybe this link will help. http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/PPC:Partitioning create a fresh mac label with pdisk on /dev/sdb, a small HFS boot partition, a swap and root partition. Format and assign mount points in the yast partitioner.