SuSE 8.0 Installation problems

[Myles Green]

On Thursday 12 September 2002 05:48, Keith Antoine wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 07:54, Susan Macchia wrote:
> > First please accept my aplogies for the last 2 postes.  I'm using
> > opera w/ yahoo mail and the tab key is causing the email to be
> > sent!
> >
> > Yes my first thought was a hardware conflict, but I would have
> > expect to see the problem w/ SuSe7.3 and I did not.  As I said it
> > has been running flawlessly for almost 1 year now.  It could be
> > some card beginning to die.  The only cards I have are
> >     * a US Robotics ISA modem
> >     * an Xpert 98D AGP 2x graphics card (PCI)
> >     * Etherlink NIC (PCI_
> >     * YMV724 Sound adapter card (PCI)
> >
> > 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.

Well, I have to add my tale in here now... I'm sending this email from a 
SuSe 8.0 install on fairly new hardware (~ 1yr old): Shuttle AK31 
motherboard, AMD Athlon 1.4Ghz, 512MB PC2100 RAM, nVidia GeForce2 400MX 
64MB, SB Live! 5.1 and it installed w/o a hitch. 

OTOH, I also have another box with a Shuttle AK35GT2R mainboard and an 
AthlonXP 1800+ with 1.5GB PC2700 RAM, Riva TNT2 M64 and onboard sound 
and SuSe won't even begin to install on it. In fact, to date I've only 
ever gotten Slackware 8.1 and Debian 3.0 to install on it - SuSe and 
Red Hat both crap out on it.

I'm pretty sure Doug runs the 'mothership' on SuSe and the hardware is 
rather "upscale" AFAIK.

things that make you go "huh?"

-- 
Myles Green
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The makers may make
and the users may use,
but the fixers must fix
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