Hi again Larry
Yeah, I was thrilled when they annouced they were adding PPC support back in the early stages of 10.0's testing. I've tried YDL, but it didn't install right(would use my Adaptec card and drive for the install, but then wouldn't boot for lack of the module.....weird).
This sort of thing seems to be a common issue with YDL though I've not tried a recent release.
What model is yours? Blue & White? Cause that's New World and easier to install. I have Beta3 on my son's Wallstreet and I'm downloading RC1 for it right now. It's kinda slow with the stock G3/266, but I'm looking for a G4/500 for it.
It's a Blue and White G3 'new world' from late '99, 450MHz PPC cpu. I got a pair of 256M PC100 memory sticks on ebay and now it has 512M, that helps a lot.
I have some pages on my personal site that I was thinking of putting on the OSL wiki, but I couldn't see anywhere obvious to add them? Maybe a link at http://en.opensuse.org/Hardware to an entry at http://en.opensuse.org/HOWTOs#Architecture_.26_Platforms ?
Added as http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_on_G3_iMac_%28ppc%29 - needs some tidying up as so far it's not much more than a cut 'n' paste from my personal pages...
Couldn't hurt. I've actually installed Beta2 on a PowerMac 6500/250 with the Max 128MB RAM. Everything worked for the most part(except that my SCSI cards wouldn't work and the Comm Slot II ethernet cards wouldn't work either). I was definately too slow with the stock 603/250. Hopefully, it will be more usable with a G3/400. The max RAM limit of 128 isn't good though. Oh well.
G3/450 is great with 512M RAM. I managed to install 10.2 (I think it was) on a Toshiba laptop with 144M RAM and a P100 CPU, but it was very painful. The key is to create a swap file in advance and manually activate it ASAP. I may try again with 11.0 on that machine which now has Damn Small Linux on it (and fairly usable too). I'm off now to test 11.0 RC1, as the download has finally completed... -- Cheers Richard. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org