Thank you! I am new to Suse, and to installing on a mac but I am familure with Linux, I use Mandriva or Fedora on all my PC's but I dont want to take chances with my mac. I was even thinking of simply unplugging the hard drive and just installing Suse on the second hard drive alone just to get a feel for it. Any little tips and tricks you can give would be appreciated. Thanks again.. I have the Powr Mac G5, model powermac 11,2 CPU PowerPC G5 (1.0) 2 cpu 2 ghz CDU speed L2 Cache (per CPU) 1 mb Memory 1 GB Bus 1 Ghz Boot ROM Version 5.2.1f1 NVIDIA GeForce 6600 Sound is Burr Brown PCM3052 Amy A. Stephen K Dickeson wrote:
Amy,
I think I can help you but could you tell me exactly which G5 you have? Then I will post my response to you and the group so that others will (hopefully) benefit from it as well.
Steve
--- "Amy A." <suselist@ash.st> wrote:
Hello All, I appreciate the time you take to give me any tips or tricks on installing Suse 10.1 on a G5. I have never installed on a ppc before and I plan on using a separate drive keeping my existing mac os(tiger) as it is. I plan on going with lilo as the boot loader since I am more familiar with it.
I am just looking for any 'heads up' you can give me. I have installed 10.1 on a pc with no problems at all, they were all great installs but I seem to value my mac much more than any windows pc(sorry, just being honest) I was hoping you could tell me if suse 10.1 installs as easy on the mac.
Once again, thank you for your time.
Amy A.
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On Wednesday 12 July 2006 22:47, Amy A. wrote:
Thank you! I am new to Suse, and to installing on a mac but I am familure with Linux, I use Mandriva or Fedora on all my PC's but I dont want to take chances with my mac. I was even thinking of simply unplugging the hard drive and just installing Suse on the second hard drive alone just to get a feel for it. Any little tips and tricks you can give would be appreciated.
Thanks again..
I have the Powr Mac G5, model powermac 11,2 CPU PowerPC G5 (1.0) 2 cpu 2 ghz CDU speed L2 Cache (per CPU) 1 mb Memory 1 GB Bus 1 Ghz Boot ROM Version 5.2.1f1 NVIDIA GeForce 6600 Sound is Burr Brown PCM3052
Amy A. ==========
Amy, That sounds like a splendid idea! Since you have a second drive to play with, it makes perfect sense to remove your Mac drive and use the second for SuSE. Then later, you can decide either to do a dual boot or just blow away the MacOS altogether! I think you'll find Linux to be quite speedy on the G5. regards, Lee
On Jul 12, 2006, at 10:47 PM, Amy A. wrote:
I was even thinking of simply unplugging the hard drive and just installing Suse on the second hard drive alone just to get a feel for it.
That's what I do. That way I can't screw up the other install. A poor man's dual boot! ;) Kindly post what you think of the speed compared to OSX. I don't have a G5 to run it on yet. Thanks, George
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