Re: SuSE 6.2 Evaluation

[Richard <nospam [at] zetnet.co.uk>]

Chris

> Initially the network, and X were not working.
>

I do that with every distribution of Linux

> 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.

Best to use XF86Setup. I use it with Red Hat, SuSE, Open Linux,
Debian and Slackware. Works for me.

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Thanks

Richard
Sheffield UK

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