Installing 10.1 on B&W G3 cont'd
Well, I found out a few things: 1. YaST will NOT properly initialize the hard drive to make use of yaboot on this machine. I had to go in and manually setup the partition table with pdisk as explained in the guide for v10.0. Of course, v10.0 would not even boot on this machine. YaST would also NOT format the Apple_HFS partition if setup with YaST. It was able to successfully format it after I initialized and set the disk up with pdisk. It kept telling me it was a Linux native partition. Also, cfdisk doesn't work properly and probably should be removed since it showed that pdisk had done nothing and pdisk showed that cfdisk had done nothing. 2. YaST will not work with the ATI Rage IIc/PCI card. After installing with the Twin Turbo, I swapped in the ATI card and it locked up the system every time. 3. You cannot run the installation system on an Old World Mac with v10.1. I have tried the following with no luck. It locks up during the reboot process. The machines I have tested are: 5400/180, 6500/250, G3/266(with and without a G4/400). I still have to check my 7500 and 9600 machines. 4. I have no idea why I still get installation errors on random RPMs. v10.0 was generally able to ignore them and continue, but with v10.1 the errors almost always caused YaST to crash. Plus, they were random and one time the same package would install while another it would fail. I currently have the system setup with a minimal text install until I can get a real video card for it to be able to run X. It seems that support for the TwinTurbo has been completely removed. The one time I actually got it to come up with KDM, it must have had a 4 color pallete. So far it is sitting here stable with YaST just running. Also, why is it that I have to waste Hard Drive space by installing packages for stuff I have NEVER had and don't even have connected to the conputer? Bluetooth, IRDA, Pilot, ISDN, etc? Why are these required dependecies? It is shoddy programming from the developers of the packages? I'm sorry to vent, but it's exasperating to have so many problems traced to packages that I don't need, have never used, and if they weren't flagged to be installed that maybe this thing would be up and running by now. This isn't just a PPC gripe. I see the same problem on the i386 side as well. ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com
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