Re: SuSE 6.2 Evaluation

[nospam [at] croome.net (Chris Croome)]

On Sat, 28 Aug 1999 17:36:53 +0100, Paul Sims <paul [at] psims.free-online.co.uk>
wrote:

>Anyone else with
>this disk please do a test installation see if you get the same errors.

I tried it this afternoon on a friends box. It's the first time I have installed
anything other than RH and I was in a rush.

I basically clicked on all the default and auto settings as quick as I could
without really reading anything and started off without knowing what any of the
hardware was.

The problems I had could probably be solved by reading the install instructions
but I hate doing that kind of thing and only resort to that if everything else
fails ;-)

Initially the network, and X were not working.

I initially got the domain name wrong (in redhat you need the machine name and
domain, in with SuSE it's just the domain name).

I looked at the writing on the on the network card chip, did a quick search in
the (very good compared to RedHat) hardware data base on the SuSE web site,
found out what it was called, clicked on the right card somewhere in yast (I
think!) and that seemed to start working.

I tried to set up X in yast and got told that the correct X server was not
installed. I looked at the chip, selected the s3 server and installed that from
yast. Ran the xconfig thing in yast again and got stuck on the monitor type - in
Red Hat there is a default monitor type for makes that don't appear and I
couldn't see the equivalent option.

At this point I ran out of time and had to leave my friend to sort the rest out,
I have a feeling that I might need to get him signed up to this list!

Chris

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