SUSE 9.0 mumblings

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sun December 21 2003 04:26 pm, Collins wrote:
> On Sunday 21 December 2003 11:58, Ben Duncan wrote:
> > I have 8.2 Professional I bought back in August. Paid $29.95 on sale
> > at ChompUsa .....
> >
> > I am here now, figuring out on how to do a autoyast install. just got it
> > working, and I must say, looks like it is gonna make my life a breeze
> > deploying these 4 boxes I have to get ready today ...
>
> In case I wasn't clear enough, the 9.0 automated install is superb.  I'm
> sure someone can come up with difficult hardware to break it with, but in
> my case with realatively new, relatively non-mainstream gear, it worked
> like a champ. I would be curious to know how well it works on a laptop,
> since nearly all of those are downright strange.

Whenever I get a new version of SuSE... I always install it to my Thinkpad A21 
first.  Never had a problem.   Have also installed it on a Dell Inspiron 
5100.




>
> Also, I failed to note, the PC I used has WinXP installed, and I was able
> to chop the size with ntfsresize to make room for SUSE.  Unfortunately, I
> didn't successfully manage to get the WinXP swap file removed (always
> placed in the middle of the partition), so the #@!% WinXP partition is
> still 40G of my 80G harddrive, which is quite overkill for my occasional
> WinXP use!  Someday I'll try to reformat again.

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         12/21/03 19:44  +
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