Re: Newcomer in Opensuse on a G5

Hi!
2012/11/29, Dinar Valeev <[email protected]>:
> Hi, welcome!
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Ala de Dragón <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> Hello to all the comunity.
>> I'm Spanish, please forgive some mispelled word or some sentence
>> without sense. I will do my best effort.
> No problem.
Thanks :)
>>
>> I have and old G5, Inside there is a penguin eating apples ;)
>>
>> I use debian in this G5, but on i386 I use opensuse since many years
>> ago. Maybe since 9.x branch... I can't remenber. Recenly I discover
>> that opensuse 12.2 has ISO for PPC. I suscribe to the list and read
>> some messages to understand what is happening. So I decide to write to
>> the list because I discover that I nedd an installation server in
>> order to install PPC version on mac G5. Is this correct? Any advice on
>> how to start?
> You just need to burn net install ISO, plug it to your machine and
> install it over the network.
>
> You need to specify:
> Server IP: download.opensuse.org
> Path: /ports/ppc/distribution/12.2/repo/oss
>
This is like i386 net install, :)
> There are some issues, that might happen during installation:
> first most important one: ext4 or LVM on / will produce broken
> bootloader config (it is on my list to fix that)
> As Andreas reported yesterday, there are some dependencies issue,
> while you installing screen package during installation. To workaround
> that, choose minimal pattern and install missing packages on running
> system.
>
Ok, I will try the only text install. Maybe I will write again the
next month. I'm busy at the moment and I need to clone the repo. I
don't have enough Inet at home.
> Hope that helps
>
A lot
> Have fun,
> Dinar
Thanks again :D
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 lo que el agua es  para las ninfas"
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