Note on partitioning. I had previously mentioned that I didn't have any issues using YaST's partitioner in v10.0. However, I have since found that when you are installing onto a disk that aleady has MacOS on it and is booted from that disk, you do have to set the disk up w/ pdisk. IF you are using a seperate drive for openSuSE, the partitoner works so long as you do NOT use an Apple_HFS partition. Anyway, I installed v10.0 on my son's PowerBook G3(Wallstreet). I was hoping that the 466Mhz upgrade I had ordered would show today, but not yet. The system was able to successfully install using the G3/233(no back side cache).It is kinda slow, but it works. I used the "acceleratedx=1" command line option in BootX, and the graphical system works just fine using 15bit color. I'm hoping for a huge improvement with the new processor, and hopefully it will be able to play video with no problems. Later
Dne Saturday 08 July 2006 07:15 larrystotler@netscape.net napsal(a):
Note on partitioning. I had previously mentioned that I didn't have any issues using YaST's partitioner in v10.0. However, I have since found that when you are installing onto a disk that aleady has MacOS on it and is booted from that disk, you do have to set the disk up w/ pdisk. IF you are using a seperate drive for openSuSE, the partitoner works so long as you do NOT use an Apple_HFS partition. I had serious problem with partitioner in 10.1 :) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=134652 It look like same issue, it should be fixed now.
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My situation is a little different because I cannot install v10.1(at least I haven't figured out how yet). v10.1 broke compatibilty for the "Old World" macs. When you restart the system into the installer using BootX, the system locks up at the initial restart. Evidently, a kernel panic is caused because the system restarts after 180 seconds. In my previous installs with v10.0, I was always installing linux onto a seperate new drive, and the only issue that I had was that if I tried to have YaST setup an HFS partition, it would crash, which is similar to your problem. However, in my experience, YaST would dump me back out to the text installer(the one before the install actually starts). Fixed doesn't help unless they manage to get support for the "Old World" macs back in. The newer Lombard and Pismo Powerbooks are OpenFirmware v3.x, so they can use yaboot. I have to use either BootX or quik. A friend suggested that I start the mac with the initrd and kernel from v10.0's install disks and try to see if 10.1 would install. I'm leary of this because if it does start the installer, the system may not work after the inital reboot. -----Original Message----- From: Pavel Nemec <pnemec@suse.cz> I had serious problem with partitioner in 10.1 :) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=134652 It look like same issue, it should be fixed now.
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