On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 10:12, Rex Johnston wrote:
> Installing linux is a very time consuming job, and the brilliance of a
> decent installer, like SuSE, is the sheer amount of
> work that has gone into it. They've checked which version of all the
> driver works with *their* kernel, and included it
> with the install.
>
> If i'm going to go to the trouble of grabbing drivers from all over the
> place, i may as well install debian. At least then i
> get a whizzy package manager, and i never have to (re)install it again.
>
And the good news this morning is.........
I have Trevor's machine booting Windows as well as SuSE. (Remember yesterday
we could not get into WinXP?)
I did two things and not sure which one fixed it but I am leaving it as is.
1/ Chad helped me use fdisk to completely wipe the hard drive, including the
MBR
2/ I formatted all of the Windows Partitions as Fat32
More good news is that, as Rex said, SuSE installing is a breeze. The lucent
modem was auto-detected and just works.
Connected to my network at home (Trevor uses dialup) and now all updates are
downloading and installing after selecting "On-line-Updates" - including the
nVidia drivers and latest kernel.
--
Robert Fisher
(aka - Rob, Bob, Robbie, Robbo, Fish)
www.fisher.net.nz
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-- Homer Simpson
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