openSUSE PPC August 2006

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by Damir Buskulic

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

12 years, 10 months

xorg.conf

by George Georgiou

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 ..

14 years, 11 months

booting to blank IBM RS/6000 7026-H50

by dtutty＠porchlight.ca

I'm wanting to switch from the comodity/x86 arch to the RS/6000 to get reliability-by-design instead of reliability-by-cheap-replacment-parts-when-frequently-break. With the newer POWER arch pSeries out, the older RS/6000s are in the same price ballpark as a current Pentium 4. In my case I can get the H50 with dual 604e 332 for less than the price of a Pentium 4 (e.g. $750 CDN for the H50). My vendor wants to ensure that the unit boots linux before he ships it. I've been using Debian on a 486 but he can't get Debian-PPC to boot, neither LFS, nor Gentoo. SUSE is the latest trial and is the only distribution that says it runs on all RS/6000. The problem I've been getting with other distros is that OF doesn't recognze the CD as bootable and when manually boot yaboot, get CLAIMED FAILED when try to boot the kernel. I'll dl and burn and mail the CD1. Are there any hitches I should tell my vendor about before I send him the CD? Are there any firmware setup tricks to get it to work? There is no current OS on the unit to boot from. It has a blank 9.1 GB SCSI drive in bay B2, along with CDrom and floppy, 256 MB ram. Opinions on using an RS/6000 vs Pentium 4 for general desktop stuff is also appreciated. Other PPC mailing lists are quite MAC specific. Thanks, Doug Tutty.

14 years, 11 months

Motorola MTX+ PReP

by Wade Berrier

Hi, Anyone have any luck installing suse 10.1 on an old Motorola MTX+ PReP machine? Wade

14 years, 11 months

Re: [suse-ppc] booting to blank IBM RS/6000 7026-H50

by dtutty＠porchlight.ca

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:20:09PM -0400, Bob Mariotti wrote: > dtutty(a)porchlight.ca wrote: > >I'm wanting to switch from the comodity/x86 arch to the RS/6000 to get > >reliability-by-design instead of > >reliability-by-cheap-replacment-parts-when-frequently-break. > > > >With the newer POWER arch pSeries out, the older RS/6000s are in the > >same price ballpark as a current Pentium 4. In my case I can get the H50 > >the H50). > > > >Opinions on using an RS/6000 vs Pentium 4 for general desktop stuff is > >also appreciated. Other PPC mailing lists are quite MAC specific. > > > > > Doug; > > Havings been a long time AIX devotee I too thought like you when it came > to Linux deployment (why not use my old RS6K servers...). > > I got a tremendous amount of helpful information on this topic from this > site: > http://www.solinno.co.uk/7043-140/ > and even though it refers to the -140, most of it was also applicable to > the '50 models of which the H50 falls. > > I did try and eventually got both my 140's and B50 booting and working > but quite frankly the performance, for what ever reason, what never > quite as good as when it was running AIX. Furthermore, the sheer > amount of effort required just to boot and load these monsters was just > impractical. I finally simply shut them down and purchased AMD XP and > now AMD Opteron boxes which load in a snap and performance wise are > great (and cheap). > > So, just my $.02 worth but just ask yourself "what is YOUR time and > effort (and frustration) worth?". > > Good luck, > > Bob > > Thanks Bob. I can't afford an AIX license. You say the performance on Linux was less than AIX. How did the performance compare on linux between the PowerPC and the AMD? I eventually want to use USB (assuming someone gets a USB PCI card working for them [comment please]) with a video-capture dongle to transfer from VHS to DVD, store and retouch digital camera images, watch DVDs, etc. That takes more power than my 486! I was figuring that the H50 with 4-way 604e would do it. What do you think? Assuming that it boots in the first place to get linux installed. Thanks, Doug.

14 years, 11 months

Re: [suse-ppc] booting to blank IBM RS/6000 7026-H50

by dtutty＠porchlight.ca

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 05:26:33PM -0400, Bob Mariotti wrote: > Doug; > > Having worked with both types of systems, online business applications > on AIX with the RS6K's and mostly online web serving with the AMD's, and > now running all my desktops and servers on AMD w/Linux (windoze > free!!!), I personally and professionally would recommend the latter > for what you are talking about. Thanks Bob, How have you found reliability with the AMD (and the whole platform)? My perception (probably wrong as it seems) is that with the new x86 systems running so hot, with everything being a comodity, with upgrades requiring replacement rather than adding on (e.g. another processor card) that the reliability suffers compared to the RS/6000. This is what I've found with comodity level x86. My only reliable computer is my IBM 486 (no hardware/firmware/mysterious errors ever since I bought it in 1994). My pentium 75 is a joke. My Pentium II 233 has a bum power supply and when asked re the value of replacing it says "well that Asus board was a good board but its 5 years old now". If I go with the AMD, how do I know what's a good quality board vs a comodity board (and other components) or do I just trust the vendor to put together a good, long lasting, box? When you need to upgrade your servers for performance, do your old ones still have life in them to resell? Nobody around here has older x86 boxs (I haven't checked with my RS/6000 vendor). Feel free to email me directly if you wish since this is leaving the purpose of the list. Thanks, Doug.

14 years, 11 months

openSUSE 10.1 ppc repositories?

by Stan Glasoe

Hello, Where are the openSUSE 10.1 PPC repositories that have KDE 3.5.4 in them? Does any know if Packman will eventually have PPC equivalents of the i586 and x86_64 repositories? And yes I'd want the versions to be synchronized within a few days of each other :) . . . If I knew how to recompile for PPC from i586 or x86_64 I'd help out. So any helpful clues would be appreciated. Thank you Peter Czanik for all your work in trying to get some of the PPC programs up to date. Stan

14 years, 11 months

Recover Root

by George Georgiou

Hi there, Ive forgot my root pass for my b50.Im using Suse 10.0. How do I go about recovering or changing it. Thnx

14 years, 11 months

SPAM: new to ppc

by jhb

hello i am new th the ppc. i'v been using suse in intel for years and was just given a oldworld G3 ppc. i was able to install yellowbog 2.4 but would like to be runnning suse any hel?

14 years, 11 months

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openSUSE PPC August 2006