October 2005 - openSUSE PPC - openSUSE Mailing Lists

am I hacked ?
by Damir Buskulic 16 Sep '08

16 Sep '08

Hi, I got some problems (disk access denied, bus errors,...) that led me to go into single user mode and fsck my partitions. I noticed then that there were some directories created in the tmp directory, called "dev" and "etc", and one file in the / directory called "success" with 0 length. At reboot, these files disapeared. Does anybody know if this could be a sign of a hacked computer ? I mean could someone have installed a rootkit or some such ? I'm not paranoid but this indeed seems strange. Cheers Damir -- ===================================================================== | Damir Buskulic | Universite de Savoie/LAPP | | | Chemin de Bellevue, B.P. 110 | | Tel : +33 (0)450091600 | F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex | | e-mail: buskulic(a)lapp.in2p3.fr | FRANCE | ===================================================================== mailto:buskulic@lapp.in2p3.fr

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xorg.conf
by George Georgiou 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

Hi there, I'm sorry for sending you this query maybe you can help since I cant find any info elsewhere, Ive installed suse 10.0 on a b50 all is well there. The problem I have is that I've set up another b50 With fedora 5 but I have a garbled screen problem. I was wondering if I can copy xorg.conf from suse and apply it to fedora. Once again sorry ..

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Another 7500 update
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 06 Nov '05

06 Nov '05

Well, I flashed one of my 2940UW cards with the apple rom. It was seen by OS 9 with the new memory, but it wouldn't access the Apple CD drive. After re-installing the old RAM, it was fine. I guess it is time to give up. I've just never seen memory do this and I have been a PC tech for 15 years......oh well....thanx for all the suggestions. __________________________________________________________________ Look What The New Netscape.com Can Do! Now you can preview dozens of stories and have the ones you select delivered to you without ever leaving the Top Home Page. And the new Tool Box gives you one click access to local Movie times, Maps, White Pages and more. See for yourself at http://netcenter.netscape.com/netcenter/

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java5 for ppc
by Peter Czanik 04 Nov '05

04 Nov '05

Hello, I just read the news at http://www.pegasos.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=75… that IBM released a beta of Java 5.0 Standard Edition for PPC. If it works, could it be included in the next alpha? It's available at http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/java5beta/ Bye, Peter Ps: they have changed something, or I forgot my IBM ID, but I can't log in...

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/sbin/lilo fails on SuSE10 install on Mac Mini
by Julian Seward 02 Nov '05

02 Nov '05

I'm trying to install SuSE10 on a Mac Mini, having successfully installed it on an old iMac DV400. I carefully followed all the directions at http://www.opensuse.org/PPC, and the install goes through OK, but nothing I can do will persuade lilo to be happy. When I run it, I get: linux:~ # /sbin/lilo running on pmac_new BOOT_DEVICEPATH = /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:2 OTHER_DEVICEPATH = /pci@f4000000/ata-6@d/disk@0:7 hmount: /dev/hda2: not a Macintosh HFS volume (Invalid argument) It's this last line I'm concerned about. The partition map is: Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/hda' #: type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_partition_map 'Apple ' 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Bootstrap 'bootstrap ' 20480 @ 64 ( 10.0M) 3: Apple_HFS 'spare_hfs ' 20480 @ 20544 ( 10.0M) 4: Linux 'spare_linux ' 20480 @ 41024 ( 10.0M) 5: Linux 'swap ' 2048000 @ 61504 (1000.0M) 6: Linux 'root ' 106573104 @ 2109504 ( 50.8G) 7: Apple_HFS 'Apple_HFS_Untitled_4' 47618864 @ 108682608 ( 22.7G) 8: Apple_Free ' ' 16 @ 156301472 My reading of the opensuse.org web pages is that I should direct the bootloader to /dev/hda2. hda6 is root. hda7 contains a MacOS install. My lilo.conf is: boot=/dev/hda2 timeout=100 default=linux activate image=/boot/vmlinux initrd=/boot/initrd label=linux append="root=/dev/hda6 sysrq=1" other=/dev/hda7 label=macos What am I doing wrong? J

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Installing SuSE 10.0 Comunity on a IBM 7043-140
by Andres Tarallo 28 Oct '05

28 Oct '05

We dowloaded the ISO to install from the net. We where unable to make the sistem boot with it. We tryed the following: mkdir testcd mkdir testcd/boot cp /cdrom/boot/zImage.prep.initrd testcd/boot mkisofs -prep-boot boot/zImage.prep.initrd -r -v -o test.iso testcd we burned the ISO and we are unable to boot our boot command line: boot cdrom:,zimage root=/dev/cdrom load_ramdisk=1 console=ttyS0,9600 Any help will be appreciated Andres

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Re: bootloader on IBM ppc (RS/6000 B50)
by Bob Mariotti 27 Oct '05

27 Oct '05

With everyone's help I have been able to get SuSE 10.1 "loaded" to the point of rebooting. However, the only way I could get this far was to select the "Do NOT Install Boot Loader" option. Again, I've scoured the various SuSE sites (open and closed) and not seen definitively how to load a workable boot loader for this particular box. Therefore, anyone with IBM CHRP experience (Olaf?) could you PLEASE give an experienced AIX guy and SuSE x86 supporter some detailed instructions on what/how to accomplish this? Quite frankly, installing on x86 was quite a "piece of cake" compared to this and I cannot believe that if Linux is to succeed on IBM Power boxen the distro that succeeds will be the one that overcomes this hassle. As Olaf's recommendation I did read through the PPC:Boot pseries info but it didn't exactly state how one would go about accomplishing this feat. Anyone? Olaf? Thanks all. Bob

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Final SuSE 10 install question (I promise)
by Bob Mariotti 25 Oct '05

25 Oct '05

Last week I posted a question regarding the partitioning of the SCSI HDD on the IBM RS6000 B50 ppc system to allow the install of SuSE 10.1 Alpha 1. None of the suggestions work well and I ultimately had to boot into rescue and use fdisk to construct a partition table manually. So I finally got to the point where the YaST install accepts the disk for use and all that needs to be selected and/or defined has been done. However, I cannot continue because it complains that I have errors that need to be resolved. The ONLY area that indicates a problem is the booting section. It states that a boot loader must be selected. It goes on to say that if none is selected it will default to the ppc loader. I've tried every option that is available including setting its location to the MBR, /dev/sda1, /dev/sda, /dev/sda3, etc. NOTHING seems to be acceptable here. So, before I through in the towel and relegate this machine to the rear of the upper closet shelf, is there anything that I am blatantly missing that would get me by this point of the install? The reason is that I am familiar with SuSE 8 and 9.x on X86 machines (I run several in production) and I've NEVER had this much difficulty installing it before, What should be an hour job has turned into several days so far and that's NOT fun! Any pointers? Thanks

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Voodoo 5 Video Card
by larrystotler＠netscape.net 22 Oct '05

22 Oct '05

Does anyone know if there is support for the VooDoo 5 Mac version? I have a chance to pick up one with 64MB VRAM on it, but want to make sure that it would be usable before I do.....Thanx __________________________________________________________________ Look What The New Netscape.com Can Do! Now you can preview dozens of stories and have the ones you select delivered to you without ever leaving the Top Home Page. And the new Tool Box gives you one click access to local Movie times, Maps, White Pages and more. See for yourself at http://netcenter.netscape.com/netcenter/

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Quick "expert" partitioning Question SuSE 10.1 on IBM ppc
by Bob Mariotti 21 Oct '05

21 Oct '05

OK - finally made a bootable 10.1 iso and got my IBM B50 ppc box to boot from it. I have to run YaST in text mode however and I've gotten to the point of partitioning. Because my 9.1GB SCSI HDD was previously partitioned by AIX with LVM it appears that the SuSE installer won't tough it. It requires me to use the Expert mode of the partitioning to manually do it. Shouldn't be a problem, but no matter what combination I try it will NOT accept my setting when I use the "Finish" button. I am trying to partition similar to the following: 1st partition is the boot partition (/boot) 2nd partition is the swap partition (swap) 3rd partition is a reiser mounted (/) Can someone familiar with this PLEASE recommend the "expert" settings I should use or could use to assign the entire HDD to the SuSE install??? Any/All suggestions/recommendations appreciated. Signed: frustrated LX'er

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