Hi Thomas,
Thomas Nielsen wrote:
> Opensuse 11.1 beta 2 on PS3 does not bring a lot of joy for me, and I really think something i rotten.
> Here my observations.
> My PS3 is latest firmware from Sony (well almost it is not the 2.50, that JUST came out but 2.43)
> I formatted the disc, partitioning etc, so disc should be clean.
> Then it boots up on the DVD, and the nice installer begins to do its job.
> BUT at the moment of partitioning, if I do NOT accept the partitioning, the partition tool launch to customize partitions is not having a good day, I think some 32/64 bit issue. It is not capable of calculate partitions larger than 2Gb (two!! Gigabyte). So though the Disc is already limited in the PS3, 2Gb is pushing it a bit :-)
That's nothing PS3 specific, it's a partitioner bug :) You can write a bug report for
that. It's possible that it will be closed as duplicate but it's a serious problem
so please go ahead.
> But if I accept the partitioning, and move on then the REAL problem arises:
> The installation halts! After choosing KDE desktop, and NOT entering user info, displaying warnings, it jumps to root password, and then freezes. Mouse still moves, but no interaction possible - reproduces every time.
> While writing this, I realize I should have tested by entering a user - will try to do this tonight.
Yeah there's still a lot to do :)
>
>
> If you ask me to do bugzilla's I am ready at the keyboard :-)
Keep doing that! Still I don't see anything really PS3 specific.
>
> Thomas
>
Stefan
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