I suppose an update is in order :) The installation was a breeze - I booted into Knoppix, and used ntfsresize to shrink the WinXP installation to 18GB - and then fdisk to create space for Linux. This is NOT the recommended procedure for newbies/intermediates - I personally found the interface of qtparted clumsy, that's all :) Unless you have a complete understanding of disks, partitions, volumes and whatnots, please do not attempt this without parental guidance.
One difference I found in SuSE (as opposed to Redhat) is that after installing stuff from CD1, the system reboots to the harddisk and continues installation from there. Redhat/Fedora finishes off full installation using as many CDs as required before rebooting to the harddisk. I am not going to post screenshots or anything - didn't even bother capturing any - several others have done it in far better ways. Everything was autodetected. My e1000 network card, the CD writer (at least, K3b shows the writer - I am yet to see if it actually manages to write anything), sound system (haven't tested the microphone yet - midweek here, can't fiddle around too much). The docking station could be configured (sorry for the false alarm earlier today, folks!) using YaST - "second monitor/keyboard/mouse". I still haven't figured out how to blank out the LCD when I use the docking station. Wifi has been a disappointment. First of all, it seems that configuring WPA is a challenge (all access points I use require WPA, except the T-Mobile hotspots which are open anyway). Secondly, I seem to have hit upon a bug either in SuSE's packaging or ipw2100 itself - "ipw2100-1.3.fw is not available or load failed". So I am still in WinXP at home, typing this. A colleague pointed me here: http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/ It was far easier to configure my two important network drives - a CIFS share and a DAV one - in Konqueror than it was in Windows. More later. The next update should be from Linux. :) Binand ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
