jdd wrote:
I have a problem with the two openSUSE distributions (10.0 and 10.1). For more than ten years, now, I push Linux to users with little money, to be used on not so old computers, still perfectly working. It seems not to work anymore with SUSE Linux. My actual test PC is an Acer travelmate sub laptop. P233 (lack of power, but this is not the blocking part), 77Mo ram, 12Gb hard drive. this kind of machine can be found second hand, but on the range $150-$200, so not so low end. SUSE 9.1 runs perfectly on it, but is near the end of its support time.
Indeed.
I'm pretty sure that the new SUSE Linux could run without problem, but they don't install... 10.1 is incredibly slow (250 Mb swap) and crashes on the "partitioning" part of yast.
10.1 is *beta*
10.0 is significantly faster but crashes in the same area, all this making install impossible (of course Ncurse version, not graphical ones).
Sounds like a bug report. Any further information ? Are you able to partition it "manually" ? (fdisk + mkreiserfs) Anything "special" like LVM ? What filesystem (reiser3, ext3, xfs) ? Are you repartitioning it or just using the existing partitions from 9.1 ?
I'm sure I can install any Debian. I'm quite sure that a large part of the planet still use such computers. Two years ago, I had as own server a P160 with less ram and much less hard drive, it has been used for 3 years without any problem (SUSE 8.0) do we want to puch all these people out of SUSE world???
Jean-Daniel could you *please* avoid such stupid and polemic statements.Of course no one wants to "push all these people out of SUSE world", such statements are - excuse me - just plain dumb.
Did you see some statement somewhere that SUSE Linux is not supposed to run on older hardware ? I didn't. Hence, this is just a bug on this particular notebook, that's it.
Sorry for my harsh reaction but I'm getting sick of some people always having to start a flame war. Can't we just discuss this normally, without having to throw such statements into the room ?
Try to gather some additional information about why/where the YaST2 partitioner is crashing and please do submit a bug report on Bugzilla - i.e. some constructive work.
cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _\_v FOSDEM 2006 -- 25+26 February 2006 in Brussels
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