October 2001 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

fixed
by Martin Kloss 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

Hi again, I just found the fix, searching the support db on the SuSE website. I had to rename the "os-chooser" script to "mac os rom", in order to select the partition as the start partition. That fixed the problem. Martin. Martin Kloss martin.kloss(a)triquart.de Technische Direktion *************************** Triquart, neue Medien Bellealliancestr.17 20259 Hamburg Germany Tel.+49 (40)432 923-0 Fax +49 (40)432 923-23 http://www.triquart.de http://www.triquart-humor.de *************************** "Lingo objektorientiert" Das Buch zum Autor jetzt bestellen unter: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3934358322/lingmmugd

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Boot Partition won't boot after update
by Martin Kloss 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

Hi all, I just updated the Mac OS 9.04 partition to 9.2.1 on my G3 powerbook and now I can't get into SuSE anymore!? I have a small boot partition (Mac OS Standard) with the OS Chooser and all to choose the OS (Mac or Linux) by pressing the Space Bar when the machine boots. It always worked fine until I updated to 9.2.1, has anyone made any experiences with that? How can I get into Linux again? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Martin. Martin Kloss martin.kloss(a)triquart.de Technische Direktion *************************** Triquart, neue Medien Bellealliancestr.17 20259 Hamburg Germany Tel.+49 (40)432 923-0 Fax +49 (40)432 923-23 http://www.triquart.de http://www.triquart-humor.de *************************** "Lingo objektorientiert" Das Buch zum Autor jetzt bestellen unter: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3934358322/lingmmugd

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builiding RAID w/raidtools on ppc
by Timo Schoeler 04 Oct '01

04 Oct '01

howdy on the list i'm trying to build a raid on a power mac 8200/120 (just for evaluation; the final config has to run on an g3/400 b & w w/SCSI). trying it on an x86 pc is easy, you get it up an running very fast. i have a problem on the mac with setting the partition identifier from '0x83' (Linux standard) to '0xfd' (RAID automount). both tools, fdisk and pdisk, seem not to work well if you have partitioned that linux drives with the mac tool 'configure drives' (don't remember its title in english). this tool creates five partitions containing drivers and stuff, the first really usable partition is no. 6 (on scsi drives, on ata drives i guess its no. 7). the problem now is that i haven't got a tool to configure these partitions beneath no. 5 (e.g. to set the partition identifier to '0xfd')... fdisk comes from the pc (its capabilities is to work with the first four primary partitions or the first three primary and logical volumes in an existing extended drive...) so it doesn't work with that lots of partitions on the mac. to avoid this problem is to use two (or more ;) physical drives, partitioned under linux (using fdisk), containing *not* these lots of partitions. you can set the identifier here. additional, you need one drive to boot from (configured with the mac os tool, and therefore lots of partitions on it...) -- you have to access an hfs volume from open firmware in order to access the faked mac os system files for yaboot... a little proof for the inability of fdisk to access a via mac os tools partitioned drive follows: ------------8<---------------8<-------------8<-------------8<--------------- mail3:~ # fdisk /dev/sda Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. ------------8<---------------8<-------------8<-------------8<--------------- any help appreciated -- the best solution would be a tool which *can* access partitions beyond no.4... ;) tia and best regards, timo

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ANNOUNCE: OpenOffice.org Build 638C released for PPC Linux
by Kevin B.Hendricks 03 Oct '01

03 Oct '01

Hi, Just wanted everyone to know that the very latest release of OpenOffice.org Build 638c is now available. It is based on the exact same source tree (with a few minor differences) as the just released StarOffice 6.0 Beta (announced by Sun yesterday). OpenOffice.org basically supplies an almost drop in replacement for Microsoft Office (and is getting better with every release). New in this release: - greatly improved stability - both spell checking and thesaurus in English - full online help now available This should run on any ppc linux system with glibc 2.2.1 or higher, XFree86 4.0 or higher, etc. PLEASE NOTE: If you have the URW fonts installed, please upgrade them to the very latest versions from your distribution type (copies of the RedHat RawHide urw-fonts src and noarch rpms are available on the download sites) since older URW fonts have some minor corruption that can make OpenOffice anti-aliased text segfault (and yes we are working on making freetype much more robust to corrupt Type 1 font data). Our new home is: ftp://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/software/openoffice/ With mirrors at: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/powerpc/openoffice/638c/ http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ Thank you Dan (YDL) for providing a new home of the ppc linux OpenOffice.org project. And thanks to Olaf ( of SuSE) and Stew (of Mandrakesoft) for graciously providing mirror locations. Please support our PPC Linux distributions and buy the latest distributions, they are helping to bring great new software to you! Thanks, Kevin Hendricks kevin.hendricks(a)sympatico.ca

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