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

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 09:42:53PM -0500, Larry Stotler wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Andreas Färber <[email protected]> wrote:
> > After lots of Alt-E (don't show again), Alt-J (use this file) and Alt-N
> > (don't use this file) I finally got the installation running through
> > until it wants to reboot. After reboot the system is not bootable and
> > drops back to System Management menu and the boot options there too do
> > not recognize any bootable devices apart from CD-ROM and NICs.
> > Previously there was AIX5 on the disk and it seemed it was completely
> > repartitioned by the installer.
> 
> On your system, YaST probably just used the whole disk.  I've never
> used any of the POWER systems so I can't really help.
> 
> SLED 11(SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) would likely have better
> support for your hardware.  It is $50 a year for updates & stuff, but
> it would at least have all the security patches that openSUSE 11.1
> doesn't get anymore.

The enterprise desktop is not available for PowerPC, only SLES is.

> There is also the Evergreen project:
> 
> http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen
> 
> which should theoretically have the possibility for  a fairly updated
> 11.1 system.  However, I'm not sure how well 11.1/ppc is supported or
> if there are any ppc users helping out with the project.  Evergreen is
> using the SLE 11 kernel.

11.1 powerpc is not covered by Evergreen at this time.

Ciao, Marcus
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