Re: PS3 install comments

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Nielsen wrote:
> Hi  
> Yesterday I was able to occupy the TV for a few moments to try again, and here what i observed.
> 1st i should note, that It always annoyed me with opensuse 11.1-ppc beta 5.1 that i could not change the resolution. Since I am a big KDE fan, I lower the resolution to save memory, and doing this (720p on the boot splash) sent me to a black terminal.

You're right about that, thanks for letting me know. It's not a big
issue you can just rerun petitboot-gui and it should be fine.

> A while ago I tossed the openSUSE 11 ppc, but I found OpenSUSE 11.1 beta 2. Then took the otheros.bld from that one, powered down and up, and suddenly I noticed the graphic is moving on the splash screen, and i could set the resolution - even when installing beta 5 :-)
> So i started on the otheros.bld from 11.1beta2 to install 11.1 beta5.

We moved to the latest upstream version of petitboot which has a lot of
the code rewritten.

> But then it was VERY SLOW, and never finished. 1st try dies in the partitioner (freeze). Second try sent me to a terminal, where the questions followed on cli, but I gave up when it asked for the installation server (it did not see the DVD anymore??)
> Still not there yet.

Sounds like bad media to me.

> As to the different brands of DVDs - indeed my beta 2 is burnt on another brand of dvd media.
> Since they are at home I cannot be sure about the beta 2 (but i think it is verbatim) but beta 5 is on a imation DVD.

I've been using Verbatim and these worked fine for me.
Thanks for all your feedback, it's appreciated!

  Stefan

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