Re: PPC DVD request (12.1 unstable)

On 03/11/11 19:16, Richard (MQ) wrote:
> On 27/10/11 21:27, Marcus Meissner wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 08:43:09PM +0200, Joop Boonen wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if would be an option to create DVD 12.1 unstable for PPC,
>>> when openSuSE 12.1 is released. As there is officially no up to date
>>> openSuSE PPC release anymore.
>>> Then newbie PPC users will be able to install it on their old mac.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>
>> http://powerpc.opensuse.org/factory/iso/
>>
>> download the NET ISO.
>> boot it.
>> report if it works.
>
> I don't get it recognised as a bootable medium in my old iMac - is it me
> and my set-up or the image file?
>
> FWIW: my normal method is holding ALT pressed after the boot chime,
> icons come up for anything in the system that is bootable. The HD has
> OSL 11.1 and OSX, those are shown but not the CD. Ejecting (with key E)
> and replacing with an 11.1 CD results in the latter being shown. I've
> tried 2 CD-Rs burnt on different machines as well as a CD-RW (which the
> iMac CD drive seems not to like).
>
> There is no MD5 given, but I get d7187471a3fceb49b1a12625c04266fb - can
> anyone confirm this?
>
> Richard

I should have said: the above was with Build0002. I've just seen that 
there's now Build0004 for me to try (but still no md5sum).

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Cheers
Richard (MQ)
Linux user # 439271
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