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Old 18-Oct-2007, 20:07
enervated
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Please help, I am new with this: I performed the OpenSuse 10.3 install from DVD on a MacG3 tower which has a single drive with 3 partitions. Mac OS9 and OS 10.3.9 are installed in their separate partitions and the
Suse installed into its own. It all went well untill the installation finished and required a first reboot.
(That would be the phase when the root password would be created and so on)

However, the Mac reboots into the installer DVD , and waits for me to type in the "install" --then continues for a while and hangs loading some driver.
I can not find Mac PPC installation instructions that would explain what exactly is going on during install.

Am I supposed to hold the Opt/Alt key during the reboot, since there are multiple OSs installed?
I did try that, but was not given any boot options----the machine booted back into the Suse DVD, and then stalled again.

How do I boot back into Suse in order to finish installation??!?

Thanks for help!
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Old 05-Nov-2007, 08:46
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You have to do some partition work yourself (I've never been able to get the installer to do it). Read more at:

http://en.opensuse.org/Booting_on_PowerMac

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Please help, I am new with this: I performed the OpenSuse 10.3 install from DVD on a MacG3 tower which has a single drive with 3 partitions. Mac OS9 and OS 10.3.9 are installed in their separate partitions and the
Suse installed into its own. It all went well untill the installation finished and required a first reboot.
(That would be the phase when the root password would be created and so on)

However, the Mac reboots into the installer DVD , and waits for me to type in the "install" --then continues for a while and hangs loading some driver.
I can not find Mac PPC installation instructions that would explain what exactly is going on during install.

Am I supposed to hold the Opt/Alt key during the reboot, since there are multiple OSs installed?
I did try that, but was not given any boot options----the machine booted back into the Suse DVD, and then stalled again.

How do I boot back into Suse in order to finish installation??!?

Thanks for help!
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Old 07-Jan-2008, 16:30
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Best way to do it is to reboot from the installation CD, and when you get to the new installation stage select >> other >> reboot from installed system. The disk will then reboot and finish the SuSE installation.

I had the same problem. Its a minor one, that has to do with the open firmware playing silly buggers with the suse installation.
 

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