On Fri, Aug 11, Cameron Bales .:. wrote:
After that it kind of goes to pot. tried following directions from CD#1 - copy Suseboot to boot partition, set that as the Startup drive, and then reboot while holding c to boot of CD#1
That didn't work so well - screen goes properly black, penguin appears at top left, and a lot of text comes up saying it is doing stuff. One of the things that comes up says something to the effect that USB isn't working. It does keep trying to do stuff but eventually a blue/gray dialog comes up asking to make sure that the CD is in. That CD is definately in there. Since it doesn't see the CD nothing happens.
Also tried reading the manual - this was frustrating since the manual, the readme, and the docs I printed off the support database on yaboot all say slightly different things. Using all of the Docs, and a Linux knowledgeable friend I tried setting yaboot up manually - no real joy there either.
Is there one place with a unified set of installation instructions? Is my extremely new iMac too new for Suse PPC 6.4?
Only the kernel is too old for that machine ;=) I have one report of a successful boot into linuxrc. Please do it this way: Get the latest kernel from ppclinux.apple.com/~benh , download the vmlinux*.gz file, extract it with Mac Gunzip in the tools folder in suseboot. replace the old kernel "vmlinux" with the new one, keep the name "vmlinux". Edit the file yaboot.conf, there is a section like that: image = vmlinux root = /dev/fd0 # apppen = "something" label = install initrd = ramdisk.image.gz replace that something with ramdisk_size=50000. Then reboot, you don't need to hold down the key "c", the boot device is already set to your Linux Boot partition. Now choose YaST1 and try to install Linux. It *might* be possible that Yast2 works too, but I guess the newer ATI cards are not yet supported. If it works for you, please read the instructions at http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/usb2216.html and http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/keylist.POWERPC.html The newer kernels have a changed interface for the new USB drivers and you need to update at least the devs.rpm. If you still have trouble, please let me know. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...