On Fri, Oct 20, micheal david wrote:
I have an iMac DV special edition at home. I have bought Suse Linux 6.4 for the PPC thinking I could install Linux for the MAC. I am a seasoned Linux User on the Intel Platform. But oh what shock and oh what a Shame this Suse is. I followed the instructions to the letter in the manual , in the Readme file and on their support Website. Yaboot does not boot, I get a lot of Lost Interrupt Messages while booting off the CD, takes a mighty long time to detect my hardware , takes an even longer time to load the image into the virtual RAM and wham hangs the system. Even Windoze is better at installation than Suse. To make matters worse, on their support Website at
Your Mac is newer than our 6.4, so what?
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/rschmid_ppc_installation.html
there is an instruction that the following file should be download:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/kernel/k_pmac-2.2.16-14.ppc.rpm click on the link and what do you get: No such file or directory.
Fixed. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/BETA/kernel/vmlinux.pmac.gz
Isn't it great!!!! Keep it up Suse!!!!
Yeah, we do. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...