Can any one help? I have been given a Powerbook 1400 and really want to put SuSE 7.3 PPC on it! The only problem is how! Their website said the model isn't supported, but I have been to MKLinux and it says their version supports it but not the EXT SCSI. Is this the case with SuSE? Has anyone had any experience in doing this or encountered any problems. I have spoken to them and they suggested that I contact you guys/galls and see if you are able to help. TIA, Andy
On Tue, Feb 25, Andrew Thornber wrote:
Can any one help?
I have been given a Powerbook 1400 and really want to put SuSE 7.3 PPC on it!
The only problem is how!
Their website said the model isn't supported, but I have been to MKLinux and it says their version supports it but not the EXT SCSI. Is this the case with SuSE?
You would need a nubus kernel for it. There is a 2.4.5 kernel: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/current/nubus/ I have tested it once on a 7100/80. It booted ok, but we got SCSI timeouts during install. So it was unusable for this machine. Maybe you have more luck with your 1400. Gruss Olaf -- A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 05:28:43PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
I have been given a Powerbook 1400 and really want to put SuSE 7.3 PPC on it!
The only problem is how!
Their website said the model isn't supported, but I have been to MKLinux and it says their version supports it but not the EXT SCSI. Is this the case with SuSE?
You would need a nubus kernel for it. There is a 2.4.5 kernel: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/current/nubus/ I have tested it once on a 7100/80. It booted ok, but we got SCSI timeouts during install. So it was unusable for this machine. Maybe you have more luck with your 1400.
I used that kernel+ramdisk (correct me, Olaf, if it's a different one) to install a '94 grayscale Pb 5300, I attached an external SCSI CD-ROM drive and installed from the SuSE 7.3-PPC CDs (starting out with a minimal system). The small thing has only 16 Megs of RAM, and it was necessary to create and use a swap partition from one of the text consoles before YaST1 started using major amounts of memory (which it did when rading the package descriptions... it spent 1 hour swapping but survived). Unfortunately, after installing 4 or 5 packages YaST1 really died (which I account to the low memory, 48 Megs of swap space was possibly too few), but I continued installing the minimal set of rpms by hand, well I really didn't want to go through the installation again. Since then I boot with the kernel image from Etsushi Kato (see linuxppc-nubus list) because it is more current, and has a network driver for this particular combo video and ethernet card I got... I think the major obstacle on such machines would be getting X running, even though it seems possible... but I don't know since I don't use it. SCSI runs fine with that machine, I use it as a network scan server. Good Luck, Peter -- Thought is limitation. Free your mind.
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Andrew Thornber
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Olaf Hering
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Peter Poeml