SuSE 8.1 vs IBM xSeries 225

[dep]

On Thursday 24 April 2003 08:21 pm, Bill Campbell wrote:
| I'm attempting to install SuSE 8.1 personal on an IBM xSeries 225
| server, get through all the partitioning and setup stuff, then it
| starts loading software from the first CD.  Instead of asking for
| another CD, the install stops saying the installation is complete,
| but obviously it's not since a good part of the software hasn't
| installed and it won't boot.
|
| The system has the standard IBM SCSI with a single 38GB hard drive,
| 512MB of RAM, otherwise it's box stock with nothing fancy.

in my experience (as somewhat detailed here: 
http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=333), 
the suse installer, which was terrible in 7.x has become utterly 
unusable on many machines in 8.x. for some people it works just fine, 
but i don't know any of them. it has taken me three days to install 
and configure -- sort of -- 8.2 on a perfectly ordinary vanilla clone 
here. and i still can't get the network set up on it, because the 
network card that worked perfectly on 7.2 four days ago will not 
connect under 8.2. and i was one of the lucky ones -- the frigging 
install routine didn't blow up until *after* the software had been 
copied over.

a pretty sorry spectacle.
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dep
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