Today I spent my day mainly on i386 testing, as Xen is not yet available for PPC. By the time OSW arrives, it will work on PPC64 as well, but I can't wait
We left the installation story at the point, where all the different ways of installation meet. It's the graphical 'language' menu. It looks much better as the previous 'language' menu, as this one has characters from many different languages. What you choose here, influences a lot of things. Not only the language of the installation program, but if a software package has language extensions, like KDE or OpenOffice.org, it will be automagically selected during software installation based on this choice. So, choose your language, and go to the next screen. Here you have to accept the 'License Agreement' for SUSE Linux. During beta testing, an extra window reminds, that it's a beta, and there is no support at all. As we want to continue with installation, we accept it.
Hardware detection comes next. This also means, that drivers are loaded, in some cases you are asked, if you really want it. If you have a Hard Drive with an Amiga partition table, you are warned, that the installer can't change it. You can still use existing partitions.
After another few kernel module related question, you are presented with the 'Installation mode' menu. On first installation you need to use the default setting: 'New Installation'. 'Update' helps to update from a previous version of SUSE Linux, I can't suggest to use it during the beta phase or on an important system, unless you have a full backup... 'Other' has some interesting possibilites, well hidden. Luckily I never had the opportunity to test 'Repair Installed System'. But 'Boot Installed System' is pretty usefull, and you will need it, if you use CD1 for booting. There you can choose, which partition to boot.
That's for now, to be continued.
CzP