partitioning with yast2 on iBook G3

Karl Eichwalder

30 Jan 2006 30 Jan '06

10:39

YaST wants to do some partitioning on its own during the installation of 10.1 beta2 on an iBook G3 (deleting my old / and creating new partitions for / and /home). Does this actually work on PPC? I'm too anxious to give it a try ;) -- Karl Eichwalder R&D / Documentation SUSE Linux Products GmbH Key fingerprint = B2A3 AF2F CFC8 40B1 67EA 475A 5903 A21B 06EB 882E

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S Glasoe

30 Jan 30 Jan

12:22

New subject: [suse-ppc] partitioning with yast2 on iBook G3

On Monday 30 January 2006 4:39 am, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

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YaST wants to do some partitioning on its own during the installation of 10.1 beta2 on an iBook G3 (deleting my old / and creating new partitions for / and /home). Does this actually work on PPC?

I'm too anxious to give it a try ;)

YaST doesn't do ppc partitioning yet. You have to do that manually before installing. YaST may be used to format the Linux partitions (swap, /, /home, etc) but _NOT_ the Apple HFS types. See http://www.opensuse.org/PPC_Installation_Issues and http://www.opensuse.org/PPC:Boot_prep and http://www.opensuse.org/PPC_Partitioning for more information. Stan

Karl Eichwalder

12:42

New subject: [suse-ppc] partitioning with yast2 on iBook G3

S Glasoe writes:

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YaST doesn't do ppc partitioning yet. You have to do that manually before installing. YaST may be used to format the Linux partitions (swap, /, /home, etc) but _NOT_ the Apple HFS types. See http://www.opensuse.org/PPC_Installation_Issues and http://www.opensuse.org/PPC:Boot_prep and http://www.opensuse.org/PPC_Partitioning for more information.

Thanks for clarification. I'm re-using existing partitions and yast now happily installs many a lot packages. Do we already have proper bugzilla entries for this issue? I'll add some additional notes to http://www.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs -- Karl Eichwalder R&D / Documentation SUSE Linux Products GmbH Key fingerprint = B2A3 AF2F CFC8 40B1 67EA 475A 5903 A21B 06EB 882E

S Glasoe

13:18

New subject: [suse-ppc] partitioning with yast2 on iBook G3

On Monday 30 January 2006 6:42 am, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

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S Glasoe writes:

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YaST doesn't do ppc partitioning yet. You have to do that manually before installing. YaST may be used to format the Linux partitions (swap, /, /home, etc) but _NOT_ the Apple HFS types. See http://www.opensuse.org/PPC_Installation_Issues and http://www.opensuse.org/PPC:Boot_prep and http://www.opensuse.org/PPC_Partitioning for more information.

Thanks for clarification. I'm re-using existing partitions and yast now happily installs many a lot packages.

Do we already have proper bugzilla entries for this issue? I'll add some additional notes to http://www.opensuse.org/Bugs:Most_Annoying_Bugs

Don't know about bugzilla for this since it is common knowledge. I saw somewhere that SUSE is waiting on grub2 for support of HFS partitions and then YaST and parted will be more like the x86 versions. I'm new to PPC and still learning all the issues myself. This is one of the biggest hurdles to getting a PPC system up and running on SUSE 10.x. Please don't cc me on emails since I get them through the list anyway, thanks. Stan

Karl Eichwalder

16:00

New subject: [suse-ppc] partitioning with yast2 on iBook G3

S Glasoe writes:

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Don't know about bugzilla for this since it is common knowledge.

I thought something had been changed in the last couple of week, unfortunately, I did not follow PPC development closely enough to know something for sure.

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I saw somewhere that SUSE is waiting on grub2 for support of HFS partitions and then YaST and parted will be more like the x86 versions. I'm new to PPC and still learning all the issues myself. This is one of the biggest hurdles to getting a PPC system up and running on SUSE 10.x.

Yes, but for iBook users powermangement is even more important. Even if you do nothing the keyboard get very hot (does the processor always run at full speed?). Another problem: Gnome does not seem to allow me to switch to a text console (with Alt-Ctrl-Fn-F1); I'm pretty sure this used to work on my previous SLES9 installation with some updates.

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Please don't cc me on emails since I get them through the list anyway, thanks.

I'd recommend to add proper mail headers ;) -- Karl Eichwalder R&D / Documentation SUSE Linux Products GmbH Key fingerprint = B2A3 AF2F CFC8 40B1 67EA 475A 5903 A21B 06EB 882E

larrystotler＠netscape.net

15:27

New subject: [suse-ppc] partitioning with yast2 on iBook G3

-----Original Message----- From: S Glasoe Subject: Re: [suse-ppc] partitioning with yast2 on iBook G3

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YaST doesn't do ppc partitioning yet. You have to do that manually before installing. YaST may be used to format the Linux partitions (swap, /, /home, etc) but _NOT_ the Apple HFS types. See

I thought that was fixed in the 10.0/release. I have been able to partition on my old world macs with no problems. However, I have found that if YaST attempts to format a partition with HFS that it will fail(normally, it attempts to create a 40MB /boot partition with HFS). Usually, I set 2 partitions, a swap and a / with Reiser and it partitions and formats with no problems..... I haven't tried any of the 10.1 pre-releases since Alpha 1, which refused to install. I also do not have access to any new world macs. Further, I am only installing and partitioning drives attached to an Adaptec 2940U2W controller, not the onboard MESH or NCRs. Perhaps it has to do with an IDE problem? ___________________________________________________ Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact List http://mail.netscape.com

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