SuSE 8.1 vs IBM xSeries 225

[dep]

On Friday 25 April 2003 11:14 am, Keith Boykin wrote:
| 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,

not only may but *did!* suse needs to have an install routine where 
the hardware is not probed but instead specified, because most of the 
fsckups i've encountered have been when the we're-smarter-than-you 
installer locks while probing hardware. in my case, it was while 
detecting a nonexistent modem. (and if i'd had a modem it would have 
been an external on a serial port; in that it could not find a serial 
mouse, i cannot imagine it would find a serial modem.)

trying to get the network to function using *the same* hardware with 
which it worked perfectly in suse 7.2 has been a nightmare of more 
than a day's full-time duration. this is probably because they think 
i should be networking over a modem or something. suse has become 
increasingly microsoft-like in its approach. and because suse *is* 
unitedlinux, that is a very bad thing.

now i'm going in to the bios and turning things off. if i hide the 
places where the goddammed thing looks, maybe i can get the network 
to work.

i hope they all get cluster headaches and can't get any sumatriptan.
-- 
dep
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