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

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

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

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

S Glasoe writes:

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.

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.

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

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