11.1 RC1 installation on Mac G3 Powerbook

[Richard (MQ)]

I'm pleased to report a considerable degree of success with 11.1 RC1 on
a 1999 Mac Powerbook G3 (Lombard), also on an iMac of the same era
(which behaves very similarly).

Installer ran smoothly and quickly, apart from:

1. suggesting formatting of the small hfs (boot?) partition, which will
fail with error -3023 setting partition label. Bug
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447782, but work-around is
not to agree to formatting, it seems to work OK thus far...

2. Boot loader ignores other bootable systems on HD. This is bug
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=396361 - reported in June
2008 against 11.0 RC1 and present in all subsequent builds. Again, an
easy work-around.

Post - installation, a few more problems:

3. Sound works, but volume controls / mixers / mute don't
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450970

4. Openoffice isn't available to install (don't know the bug ID but it's
well reported).

Not looking *too* bad for GM whenever that will be - still on 16th maybe...?

[Larry Stotler]

Post by Richard (MQ)
I'm pleased to report a considerable degree of success with 11.1 RC1 on
a 1999 Mac Powerbook G3 (Lombard), also on an iMac of the same era
(which behaves very similarly).

Glad to hear it. I just haven't had time to do any real testing on my
machines. I plan to get RC1 on my B&W G3 with a G3/400 and a G4/400
sometime this week.

Post by Richard (MQ)
1. suggesting formatting of the small hfs (boot?) partition, which will
fail with error -3023 setting partition label. Bug
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447782, but work-around is
not to agree to formatting, it seems to work OK thus far...

IIRC, 11.0 does the same thing. I just did a re-install on my
Wallstreet and used a 100MB HFS directory as /boot. YaST gave me an
error message, but it worked ok and I had the kernels available to me
on OS 9, which is something I have struggled with on Old World Macs.
I'm working on a writeup for Old World Machines, and I think this will
work well on these machines that can't directly boot Linux. If I run
into a problem with it on RC1, I will post a bug about it. Not the
same thing, but a similar type issue.

Post by Richard (MQ)
3. Sound works, but volume controls / mixers / mute don't
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450970

I'll look into that one on my B&W.

Post by Richard (MQ)
4. Openoffice isn't available to install (don't know the bug ID but it's
well reported).

Couldn't tell you there cause I don't install it. I do know that
Peter has a thread open about it.

Post by Richard (MQ)
Not looking *too* bad for GM whenever that will be - still on 16th maybe...?

18th actually. The 16th is my son's B-Day.

[Richard (MQ)]

Post by Larry Stotler

Post by Richard (MQ)
I'm pleased to report a considerable degree of success with 11.1 RC1 on
a 1999 Mac Powerbook G3 (Lombard), also on an iMac of the same era
(which behaves very similarly).

Glad to hear it. I just haven't had time to do any real testing on my
machines. I plan to get RC1 on my B&W G3 with a G3/400 and a G4/400
sometime this week.

Post by Richard (MQ)
1. suggesting formatting of the small hfs (boot?) partition, which will
fail with error -3023 setting partition label. Bug
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447782, but work-around is
not to agree to formatting, it seems to work OK thus far...

IIRC, 11.0 does the same thing. I just did a re-install on my
Wallstreet and used a 100MB HFS directory as /boot. YaST gave me an
error message, but it worked ok and I had the kernels available to me
on OS 9, which is something I have struggled with on Old World Macs.
I'm working on a writeup for Old World Machines, and I think this will
work well on these machines that can't directly boot Linux. If I run
into a problem with it on RC1, I will post a bug about it. Not the
same thing, but a similar type issue.

I didn't see this with 11.0 but it was a blocker for me on beta5 and RC1
until I found this work-around. I couldn't get the installation going at
all prior to RC5 but I imagine it was there too :-(

I have some text on this on my personal site, if you want I can give you
a link off-list (it's not really a work to be too proud of!)

Post by Larry Stotler

Post by Richard (MQ)
3. Sound works, but volume controls / mixers / mute don't
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450970

I'll look into that one on my B&W.

Some progress on this bug with active input from Takashi Iwai at Novell
/ SuSE, I am optimistic of a fix. I'm sure he'll be interested to know
status on other PPC32 platforms?

Post by Larry Stotler

Post by Richard (MQ)
4. Openoffice isn't available to install (don't know the bug ID but it's
well reported).

Couldn't tell you there cause I don't install it. I do know that
Peter has a thread open about it.

Post by Richard (MQ)
Not looking *too* bad for GM whenever that will be - still on 16th maybe...?

18th actually. The 16th is my son's B-Day.

Something tells me it is going to slip. My money's on the new year!