hi, I tried to install suse linux 7.1/PPC on an IBM Power Series 850 machine (Model 6070-A2L, Power 604 processor, 64MB ram, 340 MB IDE disk, IDE cd rom drive, firmware 1.10) with no success. while this machine isn't explicitely listed as supported on the suse web site, according to http://penguinppc.org/projects/hollis/carolina/ it should be possible. I dd'ed zImage.prep and ramdisk.image.prep.gz to two 1.44 disks, booted from the first, entered the kernel parameters "root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 fake_initrd ramdisk_size=50000" and inserted the 2nd disk. the installer came up, I selected installation via ftp, entered the IP & server configuration, the installer successfully loaded the data into the ramdisk. the "starting yast" window came up but the progress bar stopped at 50% and didn't continue. I waited for more than 30 minutes, but nothing happened. I successfully installed AIX 4.4 on this machine so I don't think that the hardware is faulty. Any ideas ? Did anybody ever succeed installing suse linux on an IBM PPC 850 ? tnx in advance. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rainer Fuegenstein rfu@kaneda.iguw.tuwien.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Why are you looking into the darkness and not into the fire as we do ?", Nell asked. "Because the darkness is where danger comes from," Peter said, "and from the fire comes only illusion". (from "The Diamond Age") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------