Newcomer in Opensuse on a G5

[Ala de Dragón]

Hello to all the comunity.
I'm Spanish, please forgive some mispelled word or some sentence
without sense. I will do my best effort.

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?

Thanks in advance

:)

[Dinar Valeev]

Hi, welcome!

Post by Ala de Dragón
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.

Post by Ala de Dragón
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

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.

Hope that helps

Have fun,
Dinar

Post by Ala de Dragón
Thanks in advance
:)
--
"El cielo es para los dragones
lo que el agua es para las ninfas"
--

[Ala de Dragón]

Hi!

Post by Dinar Valeev
Hi, welcome!

Post by Ala de Dragón
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 :)

Post by Dinar Valeev

Post by Ala de Dragón
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.
Server IP: download.opensuse.org
Path: /ports/ppc/distribution/12.2/repo/oss

This is like i386 net install, :)

Post by Dinar Valeev
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.

Post by Dinar Valeev
Hope that helps

A lot

Post by Dinar Valeev
Have fun,
Dinar

Thanks again :D

[Ala de Dragón]

Hello and merry xtmas I need some help, maybe I download the incorrect
iso,,, and wasting Cds.

Post by Ala de Dragón
Hi!

(...)

Post by Ala de Dragón

Post by Dinar Valeev
You just need to burn net install ISO, plug it to your machine and
install it over the network.

I download from:

http://download.opensuse.org/ports/ppc/distribution/12.2/iso/openSUSE-NET64-ppc64-Build0022-Media.iso

Is this correct?

Post by Ala de Dragón

Post by Dinar Valeev
Server IP: download.opensuse.org
Path: /ports/ppc/distribution/12.2/repo/oss

This is like i386 net install, :)

Post by Dinar Valeev
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.

(...)

Post by Ala de Dragón

Post by Dinar Valeev
Dinar

Thanks again :D

Thanks
:D