Re: Call for testing

On 02.10.2012, at 01:11, Larry Finger wrote:

> On 10/01/2012 03:44 PM, Dinar Valeev wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:20 PM, Larry Finger <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 10/01/2012 10:02 AM, Dinar Valeev wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Yay, we have 12.2 code base build for Power [1].
>>>> So far we have about 50 packages failed to build and 70 unresolvable.
>>>> 
>>>> Please give it a try. Core system should work.
>>>> 
>>>> Have fun,
>>>> Dinar
>>>> 
>>>> [1] http://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/distribution/12.2/iso/
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the effort. Should the 32-bit CD work for a PowerBook G4
>>> Titanium? It fails to boot on my machine, which has Mint 9 dual booting with
>>> OS X 10.4.
>>> 
>>> On power up, I get the normal "First Stage GNU/Linux Bootstrap" heading,
>>> followed by the normal "Press l for Linux", etc. When I choose "c" for
>>> CDROM, I get "Booting CDROM" that quickly results in a screen flash that
>>> looks like a restart, followed by a repeat of the bootstrap prompt. The
>>> second time, the machine hangs after the "Booting CDROM". One time, I got a
>>> "Catch FFFFFFFF" printed. When it hangs, the CPU is busy as the fan runs at
>>> high speed.
>> Could you please try to boot it through OF?
> 
> It took a bit of searching to find out about booting through the open firmware. Once I figured that part out and using the work around from Alexander, I got it to boot and started the installation; however, it seems that DNS is not working. I was asked for the HTTP IP address - something that I do not know. The wired interface on the Mac is working.

It asks for the IP address, but it happily resolves names too if you enter them :).


Alex

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