OpenSUSE 10.0 RC1 for PPC is available for download at http://www.opensuse.org/Download

It's the last publicly downloadable version before the release. Documentation is available at http://www.opensuse.org/PowerPC_Documentation

I you have tried beta4, then you can download delta iso files as well, which are much smaller in size.

wow versions are comign otu quicker then i can dowload them =).

Ive been tryign to d/l this for a week but can only get a connection of like 3kBS

THe newversion i cannot conenct says servvers are busy are there any mirrors for ppc yet?

If you don't mind downloading from Hungary, here is the mirror, I maintain on a firend's machine:
http://roxen.integrity.hu/pub/slb/iso/

Btw: could you share your experiences about installing? I installed SuSE Linux for at least 4-500 times, but not on PPC. I'm mostly interested in the booting part. What did you set in YaST during installation, and how did you boot later on?

CzP

Great Once I get the download I will be morethen happy to give you a detail on what happens with the install =). Oh and thanx for the quick reply.

Your beta3/4 experiences would be also very valueable (and much quicker here, as rc1 )

ok heres what I got so far and where im stuck

step 1
I put in the boot command
boot cd suseboot/inst32

all is good and the cd begins to boot
but then I gett the error that my computer does not fulfill all req. for graphical installation???

I hit ok and proceed

I select new installation

heres where I get into a problem big prob is the partitioning. If I had a complete hardrive I wanted to put it on probly be ok but because I was it to create a partition off the other 23megs left on harddrive I goto
change
partitioning
create custion part. settings
ok figure out problem this time aroudn gotta goto 1: instead of custion paARTITION for some reason which gives me an error of no primary or etended partitions can be made even though there is space go firgure

ok nevermind when I sellect 6: which is 23.5 GB of unnassigned space I get the error to few partitions are marked for removal to install linux select mor partitions rofl

SO im kinda stuck I am goignt o be getting a second hardrive, but thats not immediate. maybe I can find an old 6 gig to use real quick to see what it does with mutiple hardrives. THat is unless you ahve any ideas this real strange as i never had this problem with debians install/

Paul T. Silva

ok i found a 4 gig hardrive to test it out with. when I get the partitioning done I then go back to the installation settings amd I go accept and I get the error

THe propasal contains an error that must be resolved before continuing.
only error I see hitting alt and the arrow is it cant find fd0. WHich I dont have a floppy drive and most peg users dont.
Or is there another possiblitly?

Partitioning is still not supposed to work. See documents under http://www.opensuse.org/POWER@SUSE.

Here is what I did:

My Peg arrived with Debian/Ubuntu/Gentoo preinstalled. It has 'Amiga' partitioning sheme, and /dev/hda1 is ext2 with the file 'menu', the boot menu. I booted with 'boot cd suseboot/inst32' from OpenFirmware. I chose not to install a boot manager, as it wanted to make it's own /boot partition. In the partitioner, expert partitioner, and set /dev/hda4 (the Ubuntu partition) to format as '/'. Graphic installation does not seem to work, only text based. Did everyting else, as usual during a 'normal' SuSE install.
After CD1 there is a reboot. I used CD1 again for booting, but instead of starting another installation, there is a menu for 'other', where one can choose to boot existing installation. I choose my SuSE partition, booted and finished installation.
Here came some experiments I had, but did not work. What worked for booting is documented at http://www.opensuse.org/PPC:Boot_pegasos
I used:
mkzimage \
--board chrp \
--vmlinux /boot/vmlinux \
--initrd /boot/initrd \
--cmdline "root=/dev/hda4 quiet sysrq=1" \
--output /pegboot
And then mounted /dev/hda1 to /mnt, vi /mnt/menu, and replaced the menu entry for Ubuntu with SuSE at both places: rewrote the menu text, and replaced the entry for the Ubuntu kernel:
hd:3 pegboot
And also made SuSE the default
I'm fighting now with the mouse, I couldn't get gpm and X to work (X on Gentto and Debian work fine).

OK I gfound out im getting the error

(EE) failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
(ee) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: invalid argument.

Also I check the cd and it says the cd is bad, So I went5 and redownloaded the cd and it says it checks bad to??? is the cd check not working or do I have the worse luck in the world lol.

im goign to play with the advance partitionign right now as you have listed.

oh and jsut so you knwo your goign to want to setup a a partition thats labeled bio for your boot partition. i allocate 50 megs to it. THis is the defualt boot partition for peg2.

I tried editing it in advance as you described and im still getting the same error . If have any ideas let me know. IF i coudl get it installed lol I coudl figure out real quick for you a boot thing on it. As ive set it up now for several oses and amde multi boots =)

The CD self check in RC1 is broken. You should use the MD5SUM file from the ftp site, and the md5 or md5sum command.

The description at http://www.opensuse.org/PPC:Boot_pegasos just got updated. It describes about the same, as I did, but probably a bit more clearly

One note: no PS2 mouse worked for me, only my USB mouse was useable for X.

How can I enable OpenGL on my Radeon 9250?

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I have a 9200, but it should work for 9250 as well:

http://www.opensuse.org/PowerPC_X11_configuration

CzP

Ok, OpenGL works now.
How to get now MP3 working?

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