SuSE 8.0 Installation problems

[Jim Bonnet]

Bruce Marshall wrote:

>On Thursday 12 September 2002 19:28 pm, dep wrote:
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>>suse 8, to use the language of our forefathers, sucketh the behemoth.
>>after it blew up on one machine here, we reverted to 7.3. and even on
>>brand new hardware it is not reliable, as in:
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>But....   but.....   good sir!!
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>I've installed SuSE 8.0 on 5 machines including a Thinkpad and a P-200 with 
>old SCSI stuff....   Never had a problem except with the old SCSI stuff 
>because the kernel they are using uses the new aic7xxx module which stinketh.
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>It's been rock solid for me.....
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Ive installed suse8 on everything from pII 300s to xeons to ia64 to 
laptops and everything in between..

it just works! no problems.. quirks with the ia64 sdv's but thats 
another story.

I bet this is a hardware issue.

my .02.. best regards
-jim