On Tuesday 04 October 2005 10:00 am, Peter Czanik wrote:
Hello,
BandiPat wrote:
I'm curious about some of the equipment you PPC users have to run SuSE PPC on here.
An older version of ODW: http://www.pegasosppc.com/products.php ********** Ok, great, I'm aware of the Pegasos, since I came from the Amiga to Linux. The Peg has come along nicely and is doing well. Genesis put some thought into the design and it's future.
I was very pleased to see that SuSE restarted the PPC development and is making it available to everyone.
It was continuous, but available only to SLES consumers.
Right, I understood that PPC development never stopped, since SuSE is one of the bigger suppliers to IBM's servers, which are mostly PPC. It was just not so readily available to the public as OpenSuSE is now, so I'm glad it's back for the public. I do hope it creates a lot of new PPC SuSe users too! --------------
Realizing that SuSE has yet to get Yast working good with PPC, both on partitioning drives and boot up, which will hopefully be working soon, what other bumps in the road have you guys/girls come up against.
I guess, partitioning won't be too difficult to fix, as YaST uses parted internally. I could partition my Peg in no time, without much looking at the manual. Booting is a bit more tricky, as the Peg has a special boot menu format on a seperate partition. Sometimes the kernel must be put there as well (for example, if you use rieserfs on your partitions). This part should probably left alone with some REAMDE.SuSE and sample configs. Probably a kernel could be prepared for Peg users, as the following command is should not be difficult to implement in YaST:
mkzimage \ --vmlinux /boot/vmlinux \ --initrd /boot/initrd \ --cmdline "root=/dev/hda3 quiet sysrq=1" \ --output /tmp/pegasos_bootfile
With a message that please edit menu on /dev/hda1 and add /tmp/pegasos_bootfile to the list. Bye, Peter
========= Ok, I had played with one of the new PPC Amiga computers once and knew that the Pegasos was somewhat the same way, only it worked. ;o) Starting it up was not so difficult, but I was worried about the drive utilities, but then I would probably only have Linux on the machine anyway. Thanks Peter, that helps to inform me a lot. Rusty