[suse-ppc] OpenSuSE for PPC/POWER available now
Back in the good old days, we had a boxed product for PPC, the last release was SL 7.3. Later than we focused on the POWER hardware from IBM and released only server products, as SLES7, SLES8 and SLES9. All of these products were in internal use on our Apple hardware, but we were unfortunately not able to release something officially to the public. Now we are back ;-)
hello spicy suse power team and users :-) http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/PowerPC_Documentation that's great, thanks. there are precious few Linux distributions for PPC for simple users: http://distrowatch.com/search.php?architecture=powerpc&status=Active installation is not automatic though, and i do not understand the steps you describe: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/PPC:Partitioning
Use the MacOS 'Drive Setup' utility to repartitioning your hard disk. Optional, real experts can use the 'pdisk' utility to do the repartitioning, see below. i see this is translated from german. is it possible to write a how-to in german ?
The OS9 version of 'Drive Setup' can create HFS, HFS+, several types of AU/X partition types and unallocated space. For Linux, create a normal HFS partition with size around 32mb. Add root partition at last 3GB and swap partition (128mb, 512mb, 1GB, whatever you like), use the AU/X types for these.
The OSX version of 'Drive Setup' works similar to the OS9 version, but some versions can only create HFS partitions or 'Free Space'. so if i only have a Mac OS-X boot disk, i will not be able to create the required AU/X partitions ?
Installing of SUSE Linux 10.0 beta3 on PPC machines CD1 is bootable on all NewWorld G3/G4/G5 Macs, [...] yaboot will automatically pick the correct kernel for your machine. There is currently no support to install the bootloader automatically during installation, nor is there anything to repartition your hard disk (within YaST). To workaround this, boot again into the YaST installer and chose 'Boot into the installed system' instead of 'New Installation'. Continue with the package installation and system configuration. Login to the system as root and create a new config file for lilo. lilo is a wrapper script which will generate a useable bootloader configuration for your system. It will work on all the systems mentioned above.
http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/PPC:Installation_issue the author is speaking from the perspective of a Linux expert. it is not simple enough for me to understand. but maybe this is intended as the process is not recommended for simple users at this stage. if this is the case, what Linux would you recommend for simple users ? kind regards philippe
On Wed, Aug 31, Philippe Landau wrote:
and i do not understand the steps you describe: http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/PPC:Partitioning
Use the MacOS 'Drive Setup' utility to repartitioning your hard disk. Optional, real experts can use the 'pdisk' utility to do the repartitioning, see below. i see this is translated from german. is it possible to write a how-to in german ?
Its probably possible. But it will look worse than the english version if I write it myself.
The OS9 version of 'Drive Setup' can create HFS, HFS+, several types of AU/X partition types and unallocated space. For Linux, create a normal HFS partition with size around 32mb. Add root partition at last 3GB and swap partition (128mb, 512mb, 1GB, whatever you like), use the AU/X types for these.
The OSX version of 'Drive Setup' works similar to the OS9 version, but some versions can only create HFS partitions or 'Free Space'. so if i only have a Mac OS-X boot disk, i will not be able to create the required AU/X partitions ?
I believe the current OSX Disk Utilitiy will only offer "free space". And up to now, only the cmdline utility pdisk can cut this kind of partition into (YaST) visible partitions.
Installing of SUSE Linux 10.0 beta3 on PPC machines CD1 is bootable on all NewWorld G3/G4/G5 Macs, [...] yaboot will automatically pick the correct kernel for your machine. There is currently no support to install the bootloader automatically during installation, nor is there anything to repartition your hard disk (within YaST). To workaround this, boot again into the YaST installer and chose 'Boot into the installed system' instead of 'New Installation'. Continue with the package installation and system configuration. Login to the system as root and create a new config file for lilo. lilo is a wrapper script which will generate a useable bootloader configuration for your system. It will work on all the systems mentioned above.
http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/PPC:Installation_issue the author is speaking from the perspective of a Linux expert. it is not simple enough for me to understand. but maybe this is intended as the process is not recommended for simple users at this stage.
We are currently working on the partitioning and bootloader related parts of YaST. Beta4 will look slightly better than beta3, we still have to spend alot of work to fix all the cases.
if this is the case, what Linux would you recommend for simple users ?
Maybe you should wait for upcoming versions, we will certainly announce it when we have userfriendly partitioning and bootloader configuration. Until then, cmdline is the way to go.
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