openSUSE 11.1 beta5 was released yesterday. For announcement, please see:

http://news.opensuse.org/2008/11/13/dev ... available/

Finally not only factory, but also the DVD is available for PPC. You can download the ISO images from:

http://software.opensuse.org/developer

If you want to do a network installation on the Pegasos or EFIKA (I only tested this, as DVD burning is slow :-) ), you will also need a "hotfix", as the original installer missed network drivers for these boards. You can download it from:

http://roxen.integrity.hu/pub/opensuse/ ... Fix/inst32

If you use it, you will also need the kernel parameter.

On the EFIKA one more thing is needed: a driver update, to generate a bootable kernel. One can enable it by adding the following kernel parameter: Or download it, and put it on an USB key in the root directory under the name: driverupdate

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openSUSE 11.1 RC1 was released yesterday evening. For announcement, please see http://news.opensuse.org/2008/11/27/dev ... available/

Please avoid using 'factory' for now, as around release time it is not really maintained. Use the DVD instead: http://download.opensuse.org/distributi ... VD-ppc.iso

On the Pegasos one needs to use the 'yaboot' trick, as described at http://en.opensuse.org/Pegasos#openSUSE_11.0

The EFIKA can boot inst32 directly. As usual, it needs a driver update to create a bootable kernel image at the end. One can use the following kernel parameter: With some precaution, one can add the factory repository for additional software:

http://powerpc.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/

http://powerpc.opensuse.org/factory/repo/non-oss/

And the Packman packages (which needs at least the OSS repo from above):

ftp://spike.fa.gau.hu/pub/pmppc111/

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And here is a full ftp release of openSUSE 11.1 RC1: http://powerpc.opensuse.org/distributio ... /repo/oss/

I'd still suggest to start with the DVD and add this repository later, as the DVD has a smaller package database, so installation goes faster.

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Just a small note: openSUSE 11.1 was branched away from factory. This means, that anything appearing in factory is now already part of openSUSE 11.2, and is newer than RC1 or release. So, please rather use the RC1 URL from above.

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openSUSE 11.1 is now gold. It will be released next Tuesday.

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I tried to install Suse 11.1 RC1 on my efika. Unfortunately the OF can't read the content of the ext3 partition i installed Suse in.

should i create partition with Debian installer first then install suse on it ?

edit : i can boot my installed system by booting the installer and choosing "boot installed system" but not from OF directly.

Did you format your EFIKA from the SuSE installer? It has a fix for it (it uses a 128 byte inode size on the EFIKA and Pegasos).

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@Peter

I didn't create partitions from the suse installer but i formated it with the installer.

Could you check, what parameters were used to create the partition? You should change to the /var/log/YaST2 directory of the installed system, and use grep or zgrep to figure it out. Use grep, if gz compressed y2log files do not exist, and zgrep, if they exist (as the important log file is the oldest one). The important piece of information is: -I128 It should be there.
If it is there, then EFIKA/Pegasos was detected correctly, but the firmware has trouble with a correctly formatted filesystem.
If it is not there, then either EFIKA was not detected, or the installer forgot about this parameter while you set up partitioning (did you change any formatting parameters manually?).

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Peter,

i followed your instructions carefully but zgrep doesn't give me any info (tried grep too). It only goes back to the prompt without any result.

here the history :

- installed morphOS on a 40gb drive, set 2 SFS partitions for it.
- booted the suse installer (following your instructions) but had to cancel it after a while as the installer was complaining not to find a swap partition (i should have known)
- booted to the debian installer to create a swap partition, made an ext3 partition too while i was there.
- booted back to the suse installer, choose to format the ext3 partition but not the swap.

and here i am :) the installation worked fine (i'm posting it from the Efika on Suse) but i have to boot the installer to boot the system.

any idea why zgrep doesn't give me any result ? (i can't have made a mistake, i copied/pasted your example above).

Then please also try with grep: Logs are only compressed when there are too much of them, if it is a fresh install, then they might still be uncompressed.

If you still don't have mke2fs in your logs, then you most likely did not format the partition at all from SuSE, and the Debian installer does not use -I128.

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well then i should reinstall, formating it with suse.
i'll keep you tuned.

Or just simply copy /boot/zImage to your Amiga partition (if that is listable from the firmware), and boot from there.

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something was wrong with my partition map, MorphOS couldn't mount the ext3 partition (it usually does) and Suse can't mount the SFS partition.
I'm doing a clean install (with a new partition map).

Thanks again for your precious and kind help Peter.

If you can install over the Internet, you should can install the final 11.1 now. It is not yet officially released ;-) There is no CD/DVD ISO available yet, but on the EFIKA inst32 is enough.

inst32 is available at http://powerpc.opensuse.org/distributio ... oot/inst32

And you should point it at http://powerpc.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/ I'm installing it on my Pegasos at the moment.

The final DVD will be available next Tuesday.

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