SuSE 8.1 vs IBM xSeries 225

[Keith Boykin]

Dep,

I dunno. I have had NARY a problem with SuSE 7.3 and
8.x.  I set up all the network stuff during install.
I have even upgraded an 8.1 to 8.2 without a hiccup
(except some programs like office-crossover don't
work.) I have set up 8.2 on a laptop and a desktop,
the desktop even requiring nVidia rpms which I got
using yast2 during installation and this installation
was an upgrade.

YMMV of course,

Best Regars,

Keith B.
--- dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
> 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.
> -- 
> dep
>  http://www.linuxandmain.com
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