A few notes regarding OpenSuSE 11.0 Alpha 3 installation on PPC system (more precisely, a 1999 Opal Blue iMac, 350 MHz PPC and 512M RAM) 1. Installation actually ran very smoothly, apart from problems with partitioning leading to being unable to boot the installed system (except by chain from install CD). This is an old problem on iMac, still not resolved. On Alpha 3, at the proposal stage of installation, under 'booting', YaST incorrectly states that the boot partition is NFS so it can't install the boot-loader. This is easily missed as the proposal is accepted anyway and installation starts. This is a bug in itself -> opened on Bugzilla as #374693 Tried using an ex-iMac HD (with MAC partition table) and an ex-PC unit with a 'normal' partition table. Also tried using Apple's HD preparation tool (e.g. on an OS-9 install CD) to prep the disc, none of these made any difference. 2. Use of NTP server for time & date is fixed (broken in alpha 2 IME) - great. 3. Selected xfce4 as the desktop (good to see it there in the menu, especially for these slower boxes) but icefm starts instead - not so nice! This sounds like it might be related to bug #372506 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=372506) except that the work-around: edit /etc/... doesn't seem to help. 4. Once desktop is up, YaST runs OK except for Boot manager which segfaults on start. That's even worse than the behaviour during installation, may be related - added to the above bug report. A great shame about these problems as, once booted, it runs really nicely, especially with xfce4. -- Cheers Richard (MQ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org