Hi folks,
Visited WH last eve, found a couple (well three actually) mags with new Linux distros on the cover. Suse 10.0 and Ubunto 5.10. I bought Linux mag with Suse 10.0 which as I write is half way through a 2 hour 2.5 gB installation. Cover price for Suse £5.99 on DVD, for Ubunto (on 4 cds) £9.99. Did I hear some-one complaining about 'doze bloat?
Well, again as I write (her indoors keeps finding jobs for me to do) the installation froze with just 4 mins to go and nothing but nothing would start the machine up again apart from pulling the plug and restarting.
1: "Do you want to install?" 2; "Do you want to update?"
Choosing update, the usual questions come up on screen and after a few minutes blank screen and then a red DOS like error message saying errors encountered and back to boot up screen!!
I'll report and undoubtedly ask silly questions in due course!
Is that another one bites the dust?
Cheers,
BD.
Well, again as I write (her indoors keeps finding jobs for me to do) the installation froze with just 4 mins to go and nothing but nothing would start the machine up again apart from pulling the plug and restarting.
1: "Do you want to install?" 2; "Do you want to update?"
Choosing update, the usual questions come up on screen and after a few minutes blank screen and then a red DOS like error message saying errors encountered and back to boot up screen!!
I'll report and undoubtedly ask silly questions in due course!
Is that another one bites the dust?
I finally got all the bits together to build my AMD-64 machine last night. I put the SuSE 10.0 DVD in the drive, and about an hour later I had a fully working system. The proprietary ATI driver installed without a hitch giving openGL hardware acceleration and one big desktop across both displays. I started the first online update and then went to bed. By this morning it had downloaded and installed all the patches.
Peter
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 10:52 +0000, Bob Dove wrote:
Well, again as I write (her indoors keeps finding jobs for me to do) the installation froze with just 4 mins to go and nothing but nothing would start the machine up again apart from pulling the plug and restarting.
I am surprised, I have not tried installing SuSE 10 specifically but previous versions have almost always installed with either full or very near to full hardware support for me.
The only time I have experienced lockups and crashes is when there is a hardware fault (usually dud RAM or Optical Drive). Run memtest86 and leave it running for at least 10 passes (Will take ages)
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