Hi, Anyone know if SUSE 7.2 will be available for PowerPC anytime soon ? I'm assuming here that the versions of included packages will match those in 7.2 for Intel. Cheers, Rodrigues _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
On Fri, Jun 15, Joel Rodrigues wrote:
Hi, Anyone know if SUSE 7.2 will be available for PowerPC anytime soon ? I'm assuming here that the versions of included packages will match those in 7.2 for Intel.
There will be no 7.2 for PowerPC. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
Olaf Hering wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, Joel Rodrigues wrote:
Hi, Anyone know if SUSE 7.2 will be available for PowerPC anytime soon ? I'm assuming here that the versions of included packages will match those in 7.2 for Intel.
There will be no 7.2 for PowerPC.
Er, any special reason? Is SuSE PPC support winding down, or just skipping a version? I hope it doesn't get wound down - SuSE PPC is *nice* - even if I did need to build my own Mozilla and still can't get sensible OS-choosing at boot functionality. ... talking of which, I'd be happy with a little utility or something that can set the Startup disk setting in open firmware (presumably) so we can choose to reboot into MacOS without having a Mac OS installation CD to hand. :-) -- Rachel
On Fri, Jun 15, Rachel Greenham wrote:
Olaf Hering wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, Joel Rodrigues wrote:
Hi, Anyone know if SUSE 7.2 will be available for PowerPC anytime soon ? I'm assuming here that the versions of included packages will match those in 7.2 for Intel.
There will be no 7.2 for PowerPC.
Er, any special reason? Is SuSE PPC support winding down, or just skipping a version?
I need a bit vacation now and then ;) Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Olaf Hering wrote:
Er, any special reason? Is SuSE PPC support winding down, or just skipping a version?
I need a bit vacation now and then ;)
Are you _the_ Mr. Suse Linux PPC? How many people are working on the PPC-version? -j -- Netcetera Aps Men are from Earth. Brolaeggerstraede 4 Women are from Earth. DK - 1211 Koebenhavn K Deal with it!
On Fri, Jun 15, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Olaf Hering wrote:
Er, any special reason? Is SuSE PPC support winding down, or just skipping a version?
I need a bit vacation now and then ;)
Are you _the_ Mr. Suse Linux PPC? How many people are working on the PPC-version?
yes. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
What is the _exact_ name of the sound-device in a PowerBook Pismo? -j -- Netcetera Aps Men are from Earth. Brolaeggerstraede 4 Women are from Earth. DK - 1211 Koebenhavn K Deal with it!
op 15-06-2001 14:13 schreef Olaf Hering op olh@suse.de:
On Fri, Jun 15, Rachel Greenham wrote:
Olaf Hering wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, Joel Rodrigues wrote:
Hi, Anyone know if SUSE 7.2 will be available for PowerPC anytime soon ? I'm assuming here that the versions of included packages will match those in 7.2 for Intel.
There will be no 7.2 for PowerPC.
Er, any special reason? Is SuSE PPC support winding down, or just skipping a version?
I need a bit vacation now and then ;)
I think you deserve that. the fact we have SusePPC 7.1 is great jj
Gruss Olaf
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 08:56:40PM +0200, Jaap-Jan Boor wrote:
There will be no 7.2 for PowerPC.
Er, any special reason? Is SuSE PPC support winding down, or just skipping a version?
I need a bit vacation now and then ;)
I think you deserve that.
the fact we have SusePPC 7.1 is great
Much appreciated here, too! Thanks a lot Olaf. Joss -- http://www.josswinn.org
Oh well, thanks for the info. I'm looking into putting together a web development workstation and looked into what I needed some more and found that the answer is OS X. Most / Everything I want to look into, like PostgreSQL, Tomcat, Apache, etc. is available for OS X. So, I guess me & my G3 are sticking with Apple ! Some of the sites i looked at : http://versiontracker.com http://www.macosxapps.com/ http://www.geektimes.com/ http://www.apple.com/ http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Apps/Servers.html Cheers, - rodrigues _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Rachel Greenham wrote:
... talking of which, I'd be happy with a little utility or something that can set the Startup disk setting in open firmware (presumably) so we can choose to reboot into MacOS without having a Mac OS installation CD to hand. :-)
hmmmm.... why can't you handle dual-boot from the harddrive? Any special reson; hardware? I am on a PowerBook Pismo, and use [space] to choose between MacOS and Linux. Works fine. -j -- ______________________________ Janus Sandsgaard - Netcetera ApS - Brolaeggerstraede 4 - 1211 Koebenhavn K. Tlf. 33 14 70 00 - Mob. 28 40 40 88 - <http://netcetera.dk/>
Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Rachel Greenham wrote:
... talking of which, I'd be happy with a little utility or something that can set the Startup disk setting in open firmware (presumably) so we can choose to reboot into MacOS without having a Mac OS installation CD to hand. :-)
hmmmm.... why can't you handle dual-boot from the harddrive? Any special reson; hardware? I am on a PowerBook Pismo, and use [space] to choose between MacOS and Linux. Works fine.
Yes, that's the way it's supposed to work, but it just plain doesn't. Invariably goes right through to yaBoot. :-( Revision B iMac (strawberry) with Mac OS 9.1 It's a shame BootX doesn't work any more. That's a much nicer way of dual-booting. -- Rachel
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Rachel Greenham wrote: [dual-boot]
Yes, that's the way it's supposed to work, but it just plain doesn't. Invariably goes right through to yaBoot. :-( Revision B iMac (strawberry) with Mac OS 9.1
Maybe we should have a look at your yaboot.conf, os-chooser and LILO files?
It's a shame BootX doesn't work any more. That's a much nicer way of dual-booting.
I think this method is OK. An alternative is to set Linux as default-bootOS and use [alt] to choose MacOS. It's a bit slow, but works fine if you are only using MacOS a few times. -j -- Netcetera Aps Men are from Earth. Brolaeggerstraede 4 Women are from Earth. DK - 1211 Koebenhavn K Deal with it!
Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Rachel Greenham wrote:
[dual-boot]
Yes, that's the way it's supposed to work, but it just plain doesn't. Invariably goes right through to yaBoot. :-( Revision B iMac (strawberry) with Mac OS 9.1
Maybe we should have a look at your yaboot.conf, os-chooser and LILO files?
Hope people aren't annoyed by little attachments (see attached)
It's a shame BootX doesn't work any more. That's a much nicer way of dual-booting.
I think this method is OK. An alternative is to set Linux as default-bootOS and use [alt] to choose MacOS. It's a bit slow, but works fine if you are only using MacOS a few times.
I think I tried that and it didn't work either. -- Rachel
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Rachel Greenham wrote:
I think this method is OK. An alternative is to set Linux as default-bootOS and use [alt] to choose MacOS. It's a bit slow, but works fine if you are only using MacOS a few times.
I think I tried that and it didn't work either.
Sounds strange. Holding down [alt] at boottime show you all bootable partitions on the disk. If you have MacOS on on of your partions it should be possible to choose it. Tell a bit more... what goes wrong when you try this book-method? -j -- Netcetera Aps Men are from Earth. Brolaeggerstraede 4 Women are from Earth. DK - 1211 Koebenhavn K Deal with it!
Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Rachel Greenham wrote:
I think this method is OK. An alternative is to set Linux as default-bootOS and use [alt] to choose MacOS. It's a bit slow, but works fine if you are only using MacOS a few times.
I think I tried that and it didn't work either.
Sounds strange. Holding down [alt] at boottime show you all bootable partitions on the disk. If you have MacOS on on of your partions it should be possible to choose it.
Er, no it doesn't. Maybe that's on newer machines only.
Tell a bit more... what goes wrong when you try this book-method?
It just defaults straight through to YaBoot. -- Rachel
On Fri, Jun 15, Rachel Greenham wrote:
It just defaults straight through to YaBoot.
I think it doesnt know your space key. try to hack the os-chooser to boot the file itself as in: " get-key-map" " keyboard" open-dev $call-method dup 20 dump 5 + c@ 08 = if " Booting Mac OS X ..." cr " boot hd:7,\\:tbxi" eval else " screen" output " Booting Yaboot ..." cr " boot hd:7,\\:tbxi" eval Then go to the OF prompt and type boot and hold down the space bar. You will see some funny hex output. I cant remember if you should have a 08 or a 05 in the second line, just write down that line when you press space. reboot and try another single key and compare the outout (the keyboard matrix). I think we have to modify the "5 + c@ 08 = if" line for your needs. To go back to Linux type "boot hd:7,\\yaboot". If that doesnt work, boot CD1. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
At 2:49 PM +0200 6/15/01, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
I think this method is OK. An alternative is to set Linux as default-bootOS and use [alt] to choose MacOS. It's a bit slow, but works fine if you are only using MacOS a few times.
Speaking of which ... A while back I posted that I could no longer change the default boot OS using OS-chooser when I upgraded from 7.0 to 7.1 on my G4. I received various suggestions none of which worked and still live with Linux as the default system. Has there been any change since two months ago to alter this situation. I currently use the Mac more than Linux and would enjoy not having to press the space bar every time. Best Regards, Ola Olsson -- /***************************** /* Ola Olsson /* oeolsson@enosis.net * http://www.enosis.net /* "I learn so I can teach so I can learn." /*****************************
On Fri, Jun 15, Ola Olsson wrote:
At 2:49 PM +0200 6/15/01, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
I think this method is OK. An alternative is to set Linux as default-bootOS and use [alt] to choose MacOS. It's a bit slow, but works fine if you are only using MacOS a few times.
Speaking of which ... A while back I posted that I could no longer change the default boot OS using OS-chooser when I upgraded from 7.0 to 7.1 on my G4. I received various suggestions none of which worked and still live with Linux as the default system. Has there been any change since two months ago to alter this situation. I currently use the Mac more than Linux and would enjoy not having to press the space bar every time.
Can you have a look at http://penguinppc.org/~olaf/trashcan/lilo ? It honors the default= line now, it can be either macos or macosx. "macosx" is only needed if your OS9 CD disabled the MacOSX System folder. Most users should stick with "macos" which loads \\:tbxi. Of default= is neither macos or macosx then yaboot will be loaded. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
On Fri, Jun 15, Rachel Greenham wrote:
Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Rachel Greenham wrote:
... talking of which, I'd be happy with a little utility or something that can set the Startup disk setting in open firmware (presumably) so we can choose to reboot into MacOS without having a Mac OS installation CD to hand. :-)
hmmmm.... why can't you handle dual-boot from the harddrive? Any special reson; hardware? I am on a PowerBook Pismo, and use [space] to choose between MacOS and Linux. Works fine.
Yes, that's the way it's supposed to work, but it just plain doesn't. Invariably goes right through to yaBoot. :-( Revision B iMac (strawberry) with Mac OS 9.1
What happens if you go to Openfirmware with command+alt+o+f and type "boot" and try to hit space fast enough? Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
Olaf Hering wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, Rachel Greenham wrote:
Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Rachel Greenham wrote:
... talking of which, I'd be happy with a little utility or something that can set the Startup disk setting in open firmware (presumably) so we can choose to reboot into MacOS without having a Mac OS installation CD to hand. :-)
hmmmm.... why can't you handle dual-boot from the harddrive? Any special reson; hardware? I am on a PowerBook Pismo, and use [space] to choose between MacOS and Linux. Works fine.
Yes, that's the way it's supposed to work, but it just plain doesn't. Invariably goes right through to yaBoot. :-( Revision B iMac (strawberry) with Mac OS 9.1
What happens if you go to Openfirmware with command+alt+o+f and type "boot" and try to hit space fast enough?
I'll have to get back to you - someone's using the machine at the moment. -- Rachel
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