Re: suSE novice

["Peter Smith" <nospam [at] zetnet.co.uk>]

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From: "wulfie" <wulfie [at] wulfric7.co.uk>
To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: suSE novice


> Alex' solution below is one way but I'd do the following :
Thanks for the advice guys. You'll notice this answer is 5 days later than
my first plea for help, It's cos I have been systemless due to botched
instalations, Somehow damaged my windows setup & had to borrow some setup
discs for that then have another go with Linux,God what a balls up!!!!.
After the meeting I was chuffed I had managed on my own to setup suSE first
time spent a few minutes playing with kde before I struggled to bed on
Saturday night. The only problem the next day at boot up was I seemed to
have setup LILO wrong, but I knew I had a Linux setup on board. Ha,Ha...
I ended up doing sommat to the mbr & knackering everything up. So ok I'do it
again I thought borrow winders boot disk get that running & start again,
Well I have tried The suSE disc I had success with (the cebit one) no
chance!!!!! can't set xf86 no matter what I did keep getting message can't
connect to xserver. Another day gone. Try the redhat 6.1 I also got at the
meeting great easy looking interface. I'll say at this stage that my system
will not boot from cd so I am using bootdisks made with rawright. So all
goes well till the message "system will reboot now" well it does. back to
the installation boot looping back twice, another 2 days gone. Better
exercise than the Times crossword this :))
Decide it's a faulty cd so I'll try the suse 6.3 I also got at the meeting.
Same results as the cebit one ie zilch.
In trauma at the moment. Think I'll forget it for a week & then but either
the new suSE 6.4 when it comes out or even lower myself to open Linux.
Thanks for the interest & help.
Pete
Battered but not bowed!!!!!



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