Anyone used Open SuSE on a PPC yet?

Hello Everyone,
I was just wondering if anyone had used Open SuSE on a Mac yet?
I noticed no one has seemed to post any questions.
Cheers,
Joey

I'm planning on giving it a go once 10 hits the release version.

Originally posted by kastorff@Sep 9 2005, 05:23 PM
I'm planning on giving it a go once 10 hits the release version.

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Same here. Basically in order to get it to work on my G4, I have to dump Ubuntu PPC, which I am kind of fond of. . But as soon as 10.0 comes out it is history.

I have been trying to get it running .... but haven't yet, this is my problem:

I have been trying to install SuSe Linux version 10 on my powermac 2.5 G5. I get to the point where it ask me to install the boot loader and gives me this default setting:


Image/boot/vmlinux (/dev/sda2)

For some odd reason it does not like this setting and ask that I create a new one. I have basically tried all the settings listed below and none will work. I need help. I have been trying for 2 days to get this linux OS installed and to dual boot with my present operating system. My first drive is partitioned in two, with Mac OS X Tiger Server 10.4.2 on the 1st partition and SuSe Linux 10 on the 2nd partition. On my second hard drive, I also have two partitions, with OS X 10.4.2 on the 1st and a 2nd partition with NO OS installed.

Can any give me a help with this. I just need for a boot loader (yaboot) to give me the option to choose either of the operating systems to boot to.

This is my present system configuration:


/dev/sda 69.2GB
/dev/sda1 0.0MB unknown
/dev/sda2 30.6GB linux native
/dev/sda3 34.6GB Apple_HFS (OS X Server)
/dev/sda5 38.8MB linux native (SuSe Linux)
/dev/sda6 1.0MB unknown
/dev/sda7 3.4GB linux native
/dev/sda8 512MB linux swap

/dev/sdb 152.6GB (my second hard drive)
/dev/sdb1 0.0MB unknown
/dev/sdb3 120.2GB Apple_HFS (OS X 10.4.2)
/dev/sdb5 32.1GB Apple_HFS

I have been trying to install SuSE OSS ppc 10.0 for the last few days on both a G3 iMac, and a G4 PowerBook with no success on either. I actually thrashed the HD on the iMac and had to reinstall OS X. First problem is MD5 check fails. I burned the discs, reburned, re-downloaded then reburned, then re-downloaded from a different mirror and reburned. Each senario the MD5 check fails. So I try to continue without cheking media. When it is time to partition, I get Error -1012 cannot set hda to 102. I used my Ubuntu disc to set the partition tables, then started over with SuSE choosing to "Upgrade". This worked until I got to the boot loader, and I have the same troubles that bhagiratha is reporting in the post above this one. Am I burning the discs wrong in Mac OS X. I have tried burning with toast 6 and with apple's disc utility.

thanks in advance for any advice

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scotty Delicious
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I am running SuSE OSS ppc 10.0 right now on my Pegasos PowerPC-Board. Works great so far.

There are some essential web pages to print out before installing on PowerMac.

Install Guide FAQ
OpenSUSE PPC Resources
Booting on PowerMac
PPC Partitioning
PPC Installation Issues
Most Annoying Bugs
Power@SUSE

Considering that we are being told not to partition or let YaST partition and format, Instead,
Install start_shell and then use pdisk to delete, Create and setup the partitons needed.

Later, reboot from CD#1 and you have to manually use the command line to set up yaboot and lilo?

I was left literally 'in the dark' with monitor blackened, the power button flashing green (out of resolution should be impossible on this LCD) on reboot and immediately after the "start_shell" command.

I miss being able to drop something into the terminal rather than have to be in shell command line, like booting OS X into > console mode.

And even then, it seems getting ATI driver updates might be for more experienced user.

Anyone use 0.64 of (k)Ubunktu?

Yes, I have just successfully installed the SuSE Linux 10.0 on my OldWorld PowerMac 7300 (PPC G3/300Mhz, RAM 272Mb, SCSI HDD 6GB, SCSI CD-ROM). It works just fine. One problem is that it can use only 16-bit graphics on the display, which looks ugly (seems like video card is too old for this OS). But this problem is minor, since I'm going to put this machine on network and use it remotely only, i.e. through telnet and command line interface.

I'm running Suse 10.0 OSS on a dual xServe G5, 2.2 Ghz with 8 GB of RAM and 3x250 Gb SATA HD. It's a production web server and mySQL server. After getting through the whole PPC boot loader neurosis (how-to links reference elsewhere in this thread), it works like a dream. The el-cheapo video card I was using under OS X did need to be replaced with an ATI card (Radeon 9200) to get X running with respectable video.

Also, if you want to do NIC teaming look up NIC bonding. The dual gbit NIC's will team effectively once configured using the bonding stuff. On its own switch leg it screams.

Note: A heavily threaded tar task went from 40 hours to 12 hours on the exact same hardware with the same scripts by switching from OS X (10.3) to Suse. The talk I've heard about the advantages of Linux threading over OS X (ie. Mach microkernel) in heavily threaded apps (ie. Apache, mySQL, & especially Samba) appears to be true. There are signficant performance gains from a supposed increase in thread handling efficiency.

Hi,

Yes, I have Opensuse 10.1 installed on my Powerbook Alu g4.

Runs like a treat. Only think not working is the Sound card (it appears configured, but Kmix doesn't show the card).

I am also planning on compiling 2.6.17 kernel to get airport extreme working.

Compared to Kubuntu PPC, Suse seems a bit better intergrated (Kubunut still feels like apps were 'bolted together').

Regards