Re: Booting openSUSE-NET-ppc-Build0003-Media.iso

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Wolfgang Engel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
Hey,
>
> just a few words how to boot current factory on PowerMac.
> I tried it on a 1,6GHz PowerMac G5.
>
> 1. Power on your PowerMac ;)
> 2. Get to Open Firmware with "Alt-Option-O-F" keys pressed
> 3. Insert openSUSE-NET-ppc CD by ejecting CD-ROM drive with command "eject
> cd"
> 4. Boot into yaboot by entering "boot cd:,\suseboot\yaboot"
> 5. Choose your Installation-Type
>
> From there I was able to go through installation pre-configuration setup
> (network, http-server) and YaST2 started. But it crashed when I tried to do
> partitioning stuff.
I'll try to install it on pSeries machine. And will see if I can
reproduce this issue. Maybe even the bug is not architecture specific.

>
> Maybe someday I'll have the knowledge to be able to fix things for PPC...
Thanks for the testing.
>
> Have fun!
>
> Wolfgang
>
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