Good work Peter!

And to make it even better: ftp://spike.fa.gau.hu/pub/pmppc110/ has an up-to-date collection of Packman packages for openSUSE 11.0 PPC. It has most of the packages I compiled for 10.2 and 10.3, except for those, which are not yet available for 11.0.

This is also a good opportunity to ask for your input: which additional Packman packages would you like to see compiled on PPC? For a complete list of packages see http://packman.links2linux.de/

OpenSUSE 11.0 is GOLD! For a short announcement, see http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-fact ... 00475.html

It will be released to the general public on the 19th of June, so in about one week. A couple of problems remained in the GM, but two of them are already solved by a 'driver update disk', and a third is being worked on.

A new version of the 'driver update disk' is available at http://genesi.hu/dud.squash , using squashfs instead of ext2 this time, thus reducing file size from 1MB to 4k :-) To use it, just add:
to your boot arguments.

I just updated the driver update disk.

It has now a fix for the package selection crash bug, so one can modify package selection during installation, and doe not have to stay with the one offered by the installer.

It also creates a small forth script to fix sound problems. It is called 'sound.forth' and placed in /boot on the installed system. So once the first stage of installation is over and the machine reboots, it can be booted with the following commands:

One does not have to specify a 'root=' parameter to it, as it is embedded in the image.

There is one more day left, before openSUSE 11.0 is released!

Peter

I'm looking to do a from scratch install of OpenSuse 11 when it goes live. Will it work OOTB on pegasos2? If not, what steps do I have to take exactly? Thank you

magnetic

All is answered here;

http://en.opensuse.org/Pegasos

While not OOTB, but almost there :) See http://www.powerdeveloper.org/forums/vi ... 0982#10982 for details. All you need is to copy 4 files to an ext2/ext3 partition on your Peg and boot yaboot.

Thanks guys..

The files can be put on ANY ext2/ext3 partition?

The requirement is simply that the firmware can boot from it.

Dear Matt,

I see. So, I can put it on my AFS Boot partition then?

So, it doesnt need to be ext2/ext3?

Kind regards,
Thomas

Good question. I only tested ext2/ext3, as I don't have other partitions. Those work for sure. (OK, I also have swap partitions, but those don't count :-) )

Peter

It boots into yaboot from afs partition. But when I enter the command install dude=blahblah it returns an error. Something pointing to parition 10 or something..

Can you plz tell me step by step? I copied all the files to the root dirctory and yaboot boots but then i'm stuck. I have the 11.0 suse ppc dvd. When and how do I boot from it?

tia

I also tried to boot from cd with boot cd suseboot/inst32 linemode=0 from OF and it looks like it wants to boot and the squiglly line thing spins then it stops and it appears frozen..

OK, this is what I suspected (but could not test due to lack of any type of Amiga partitions). The firmware can load yaboot, but yaboot can't load the kernel from an Amiga partition. So you should put the files on an ext2/ext3 partition, and boot it from there.

If you don't have an ext2/ext3 partition, then you should create one. One way is using openSUSE rescue. The 10.3 inst32 boots fine directly from OF, so download it from http://download.opensuse.org/distributi ... oot/inst32
This time you can really boot it from anywhere, as this is a single file, the rest will come from the Internet. A complete boot command should look like this:

This will bring up a command line environment, where you can use parted to do the partitioning. For parted hints please check http://en.opensuse.org/PegasosQuickStart#Partitioning

Hi Peter
I booted from my ext3 ubuntu partition so I can confirm AFFS DOES NOT WORK. So, its not just what OF can see - it must be ext2/ext3

Anwyay, booted nicely, installed the drivers and the nice graphic install is cool. However, I'm really stuck on the parition tool - I have like 10 paritions over 2 drives and I know which one I want SUSE on, but i'm confused how to set it. Can I just have 1 11gb parition as "/" and another 500mb as "swap"??

tia

Do i need a /boot parition as well? Please advise. IN other words I can install with 2 paritions right? 1. 11gb is "/" and 2. is 500mb and "swap" is that OK?