OpenSUSE, Anyone?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 10:06 -0700, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 10:25 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Aaron Grewell wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 23:02 -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > > > Anyone out there playing with OpenSUSE? I've order the 10.0 release
> > > > and have been playing with 10.1 for x86_64. Not bad.
> > >
> > > I'm going to give it a shot soon on my AMD64 box.  Neither Ubuntu Hoary
> > > nor Suse 9.3 would work properly with my hardware, so we'll see.
> > 
> > What exactly is your hardware, and what kind of problems were you hitting?
> > I'm just curious.
> 
> I've got an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum SLI board with an AMD64 3500+ chip.
> The video card is an NVidia 6600GT PCIe.  I've got a 250GB SATA drive
> and a DVD burner in there as well.  Suse 9.3 would install but would not
> boot, it just hung.  Ubuntu booted OK but I had a lot of app crashes and
> general instability.  Both were 64-bit distros, so I was tempted to use
> a 32-bit version and see what happened but it seemed like a waste of a
> 64-bit chip.  WinXP 32 works fine, and since this box is mostly used for
> gaming I haven't taken the time to dig into the issues.  Given a custom
> kernel I'm sure Suse would have booted OK.  The app issues in Ubuntu
> were also probably not unfixable I just got lazy and decided to wait
> until the 64-bit distributions stabilized a bit.  I think all this easy
> distribution stuff has spoiled me, I don't expect to have to fight with
> hardware anymore. :)


I have had no trouble with 250 GB SATA disks with OpenSuse or Gentoo
2005.1. They (4 in one box) even worked fine as a logical volume. How
are the SATA set in the BIOS? I use mine as JBOD, not RAID of any sort.


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