Hi,

I'm installing 11.1 on my Pegasos 2 following the instructions at http://en.opensuse.org/Pegasos and have a few some quick points.

1. I burned a DVD and tried This does not work for me, after identifying the SUSE DVD volume, the rotating slash (progress indicator) stops after about 30 turns and everything seems to freeze.

I thought booting from the DVD would be OK because it's in the instructions. And I did check the md5 and burn the DVD again just to be sure.

By the way, the instructions also say "boot cd suseboot/ppc/inst32..." but there is no such path.

2. I'm now following the instructions for yaboot. Yaboot says that http://genesi.hu/dud.11.1.squash is for Efika 5200B - should I use it for my Pegasos ??? It's in the Peg instructions after all.

3. The first paragraph of instructions after the heading openSUSE 11.1 on that page are not very clear or user friendly.

Thanks

Loading "inst32" directly never worked for me from 11.0 and up, even after changing a few values in the firmware on Matt's recommendation. Only the "yaboot" method works for me. For the same reason, you don't need the dud for 11.1 (for 11.0 it was needed also on Pegasos because it fixed a package manager crash).
Disclaimer: the 11.1 part was not done by me :D

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CzP
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All the DUD does is make a zimage after you install, as far as I remember :D

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Matt Sealey

Hi Guys, thanks for the help.

I forgot the two golden rules of SUSE:
1. If it's not a point release then you'd better backup and re-install the whole system - I never got around to installing 11.0 so this was an update from 10.3.
2. Kill beagle or it will eat all of your processor cycles.

I have to say I am very surprised at the performance. Everything seems very slow and sluggish. At first I thought it was just too many special effects in KDE4 but after I switched to XFCE it's still slow. Particularly Xine (version from Packman) which is now a lot more juddery, even on DVDs that previously played smoothly. It's as if most of the packages have been compiled without the optimisation flags set.

The notable exception is Firefox, which is now much faster.

From reading the threads on this forum it sounds like you have been looking at optimisation. Surely it's not just bloat ? Any ideas on what I can do to make things faster ?

Trying to watch a DVD : xine 50% CPU, xorg 30%, pulseaudio 20%. I'm guessing that it's the last 2 that kill the usability

I've got a Radeon 9250 with 256 MB RAM on board. I get about 70 fps with glxgears. Does anyone get better ?

Sorry, how did you get the 11.1 DVD to boot? I did it ages ago, and have totally forgotten how to boot it, i appear to have broken my sort of working 11.1 by upgraded mine to 11.3 "teal" Milestone 0, Oopsie! and it's not working very well!

As I wrote in another thread: factory is not yet in a shape to be upgraded to. It's a kind of risky even on x86. Packman makes upgrading even worse, as there is no Packmnan for factory. So one should update to factory only if non-free multimedia codecs are not used. And even then only if one has enough time for bug reporting :)

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So how do you boot from the DVD for a fresh reinstall?

Wait! I've worked it out, because the / partition had the yaboot to boot from, but not the .cnf files the 'install' command wasn't working, Copying it those files over from the DVD:suseinstall as described http://en.opensuse.org/Pegasos#openSUSE_11.0 means I could reinstall. It was having a half working install that caused my problems..

easy when you know how, but then most things are..

I tried to install opensuse 11.1 on my Peg2 machine on which I have had Opensuse 10.0. Yaboot worked, but many other things didn't. I recreated all partitions , but after that I have always the same problem. When I want to boot from partition where is yaboot or my own zimage I got message that partition is of uknown type although it is ext3.
Obviously, it needs some partition that is of other type and I have to put Yaboot on that partition in order to boot. But, I guess it shoudlbe some more elegant way.

Please advise.

veki

Ext3 should work, openSUSE formats it correctly (inode size 128). What are your exact error messages?

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This is error message on my command boot hd:8 yaboot
dos-partition: unknown partition 8, yaboot
/hda8 is / partition
if I type
boot hd:7 yaboot I get the same error message
if I type
boot hd:0 yaboot
I get message
nosuch file yaboot

I have
dev/hda5 /boot
/dev/hda8 /
/dev/hda7 /home
/dev/hda6 /swap

ANy advise?

Veki

So you have a DOS MBR instead of an Amiga partition table? AFAIR, the firmware does not boot from extended partitions...

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CzP
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OK, what I have to do in order to boot it properly?


veki

Copy yaboot and related files to one of the primary partitions and boot from there.

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CzP
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Yes, but I do not see those partitions in teh list of partitions.
How can I do that?

veki