"Terje J. Hanssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My experiences are also serious trouble to get the 10.1 beta2 properly > installed. > My hardware is an older K7, 512 MB RAM and a 5,8 GB disk slice for / > and 1 GB for swap. > It has worked and works well since long time with Suse 9.1-9.3 Pro, > SLES9 (Java Desktop), OpenSuse 10.0 and Ubuntu 5.10; the last three > now in a multiboot configuration with Win2k as well. > > Already on the 10.1 beta2 intial Partitioning the changes from long > time YaST2 installations arised. > 10.0 installs streamlined using the 5.8GB single slice mounted as > root. (10.1 tries to split this partition in two parititions for / and > /home). 10.0 mounts two FAT and two NTFS partitions as /windows/C - F > (10.1 doesn't).
The later is worth a bug report, please follow bugs.opensuse.org. The extra home partition was a request made here that we incorporated. If the heuristic needs fine tuning, please open a bugreport with details. > At last I've had to drop the 10.1 beta2 and go back and reinstall 10.0 > from scratch again. > I've tried both Internet and CD installations, upgrades and new > installations several times. Most of the times 10.1 looks to freeze > somewhere during the installation or during boot up. > Suse "font config" is mentioned, but also similar on "Save drivers > info" (or similar) > The libidl package would not install. > > Once I managed or forced the installation through and was able to > logon, the system was sluggish and useless when trying to start any > application. > > I've noticed boot (error) messages like > > "Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interupt" That's a serious issue - we need that in bugzilla so that it gets fixed. > "Fatal error inserting Thermal (........)" > "Fatal error inserting lib modules 2.6 ...." > "Trans replayed: ....a lot of error message lines follows" Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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