SuSE 8.0 Installation problems

[Susan Macchia]

Keith, I remember you writing something about that.  Huh, bummer. 
Between you and Dep, I am pretty sure that it probably is the software,
but will take Lonnie's and Peck's suggestions as well.  I really don't
have a whole lot of time to devote to maintaining/upgrading, etc and
was hoping to get a release that had most of the latest stuff.  RH 7.3
doesn't have software as new as SuSE 8.0, which is why I stayed w/ it. 
Plus, as I said, 7.3 was rock solid.

When I was on col 2.4, I had the time to keep the system up to date
myself, installing new stuff as needed.  Most new software isn't
tricky, but KDE is, and I like KDE - sorry Lonnie ;-).  But now my job
is far more demanding and I just don't have the time...  (it is Linux
based as well, but I am leading a project and have less time for the
bit twiddling that I so love).

Jim, as far as a power supply is concerned, I don't think thats it. 
I've had them go on me too many times not to know the symptoms by now!
:-)  Plus I hardly ever power off/on and in my experience, that is
usually the cause of failure (but you never know, do you!).

Anyway, thanks for everyone's support and info.  It has *all* been
helpful.  I'm glad to be a part of this list, even if my activity is
much less than in the past.  


--- Keith Antoine wrote:
[snip]
> When I look at the hardware info that SuSe generates there are
others,
> but they look like they are part of the mother board (the slots I'm
not
> using).  There are 2 ide controllers, one for disks and one for the
> cd-rom (I have a reader and a writer).  So far everything appears to
> work normally.  Any idea how I might trouble shoot?  I'm not a
hardware
> specialist (only software a software geek :-) ).
>
> TIA

Well I am the H/W geek and I can tell you that I threw Suse 8.0 out the
window, no I sold it a week after buying it. It did wierd things and
was
unable to do the bleeding edge. The configs are a nightmare, but the
install
was reasonable but glitchy. On the otherhand I tried it on a friends
older
machine and got similar results to what you describe.

I can say with reasonable assurance it was not the hardware but the
software.

--
Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage

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