Hi, Presently trying to install Suse 10.0 on a Power Mac G4. I have no intention of installing OSX on the machine, the YaST partition tool suggests the following partition config: Device Size Format Type Mount /dev/hda 9.5 GB Quantum-FireballP LM10.2 /dev/hda1 39MB Apple_HFS /dev/hda2 1.0GB F Linux swap swap /dev/hda3 8.5GB F Linux native (Reiser) / When I go ahead with this setup, I see the error, Storage modification failed. System error code was: -1012 Failure occurred during following action: Setting type of partition /dev/hda1 to 102 I'm working off of the wiki, http://en.opensuse.org/ PPC_Partitioning. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Nathan Moore, PhD Assistant Professor, Physics Winona State University AIM:nmoorewsu skype:nathanmoore78 nmoore@winona.edu On May 17, 2006, at 12:05 PM, Peter Czanik wrote:

Hello, I sent it originally to the openSUSE mailing list, but i was warned, that some people might read only suse-ppc, so here it is :-) Bye, CzP

-------- Eredeti üzenet -------- Tárgy: PackMan packages for SUSE Linux 10.1 are ready Dátum: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:22:52 +0200 Feladó: Peter Czanik Címzett: opensuse@opensuse.org

Hello,

I'm glad to announce, that after long days of compiling, testing and debuging, I put on-line a large number PackMan packages for SUSE Linux 10.1 PPC. For those of you, who don't know it yet: these are the packages, which make SUSE Linux a lot more useful, but are left out from the official SUSE release mainly for legal reasons (mp3, divx, DVD support, etc.), or sometimes newer versions of included packages. More info on Packman is available at http://packman.links2linux.de

About my recompilation of Packman packages: these are maintained by different people without a standardized environment. For reproducibility I used y2pmbuild, and modified sources to compile in this strict, chrooted environment. I had to leave out a number of packages: - some few, special interest packages did not compile, like synfig animation studio - requiring lot's of additional work, like haskel development environment and related packages, as it needs to be bootstrapped on PPC - x86 binary only, like the official divx drivers, rar support, etc.

For obvious reasons, I could not sign it with SUSE private keys, so the installer complains, but installs these packages.

As I needed to modify sources and SPEC files, my packages are not yet integrated with the rest of the PackMan website, mirror system. You can download them using ftp, from:

ftp://spike.fa.gau.hu/pub/pmppc101/

Which can also be used as an installation source.

Please let me know, if you have any troubles! And of course, remember to have a lot of fun! (SUSE (tm)) Smile

CzP

I had this problem installing on the Old World macs as well. What I did was get rid of the proposed Apple_HFS partition suggestion. For some reason, YaST evidently can't format an HFS+ partition. And, since you don't plan on having Mac OS on that machine, it is unnessessary. It is neccessary for the old world macs because of the way they boot and because you need to copy the kernel and initrd files to the mac os parititon since you have to actually boot the MacOS on the Old World macs and then reboot into Linux using a utility called BootX. Off topic - I had always wanted to take theoratical physics in college.....oh well. -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Moore Presently trying to install Suse 10.0 on a Power Mac G4. I have no intention of installing OSX on the machine, the YaST partition tool suggests the following partition config: Device Size Format Type Mount /dev/hda 9.5 GB Quantum-FireballP LM10.2 /dev/hda1 39MB Apple_HFS /dev/hda2 1.0GB F Linux swap swap /dev/hda3 8.5GB F Linux native (Reiser) / When I go ahead with this setup, I see the error, Storage modification failed. System error code was: -1012 Failure occurred during following action: Setting type of partition /dev/hda1 to 102 I'm working off of the wiki, http://en.opensuse.org/PPC_Partitioning. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 03:26:59PM -0500, Nathan Moore wrote:

Does YaST have a shell interface like YUM, dpkg, or fink? Is there a way for me to update all packages in Suse from the command line, ie,

fink selfupdate or fink install gcc

I've tried the shell tool, YaST2 and I feel like its too clumsy.

y2pmsh rug Ciao, Marcus

On Fri, Jun 02, Nathan Moore wrote:

Are these extensions bundled with GCC (are they open-sourced) and thus available in Suse-ppc? Are they specific to OSX? Does gcc look for altivec optimizations if I feed it with -mcpu=7450 or -arch=ppc?

-mcpu=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec will work. -mcpu=G4 alone will likely not generate altivec.

The real meat of my question is if Apple's gcc is "better" than the standard version packaged with Suse.

You better ask that on the gcc list, I dont know what other optimizations Apple did for their version of gcc.