Hi Houghi, First of all, thanks for your reply.
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 09:07 +0100, houghi wrote: > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:45:57AM +0545, Prajjwal Devkota wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I have been evaluating Fedora Core 5 (customising wherever necessary) > > for use in my organisation. However, recently, I have been looking at > > OpenSuse as well, and it seems to be very user friendly. However, there > > are the 5 cds to use, and I am still just beginning with OpenSuse. > > Actualy there are 6 CDs to use (or 1 DVD) Hmm, I was not talking about the addon cd, we poor people out here have VSAT links to go through, so we tend to be economical about bandwidth :(. > > > Thats why I would like to know a few things if you could help me out: > > * How well does wine run: which version is it? I am talking about > > packaged rpms of course. I did try on suse 9.3: their own packaged > > version seemed to be a bit old, and the version I compiled by > > downloading from winehq did not work well with ies4linux configuration. > > I do not use wine, but I do know that 9.3 is pretty old. 10.1 is much more > recent. > Will check it out... anyone else know though? Thanks for the response anyways. > > * Has anyone tried to create customised installation cds for OpenSuse? > > Yes. http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_DVD_from_CDs and > http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_SUSE_based_distribution > Great! I hope to have my own suse install cds too now, in addition to the fedora ones, hehe. By the way, do you know if pam_mount works well with suse? Its useful for auto home directory mounting in active directory cases, unless suse already has something better configured. > > I did that for Fedora Core 5 recently, with a bunch of rpms from extras, > > livna, and a few of my own rpms. > > use the -a option in makeSUSEdvd > Will check that out. > > That feature is useful, but not > > essential. However, being able to do a network install (a local network > > install, not from the official mirrors). I am sure that Suse should > > support that, I still have to RTFM, so if you have any quickstart tips, > > I would be happy to hear them. > > Well, RTFM first, then boot from the Net Boot Image: http://openSUSE.org > > > Thanks, thats all my questions for now, I hope to hear from you soon. > > > > Regards, > > Prajjwal > > > > Message Disclaimer: This electronic message may contain confidential > > information. If you have received it in error, > > please immediately inform the sender and delete the mail and any > > attachments. Unless it relates to the official business > > of UMN, any opinions, views and other information expressed in this > > document are those of the individual sender. > > Disclaimers like this are useless. I can not recieve anything in error. > All that I recieve was send to me on purpose. If it contains any > confidential information then it is up to you to keep it that way. The > moment I recieve it, it isn't confidential anymore. > > So how do we know this message is official business of UMN? I asume it is. > > houghi Hehe, nothing I can do about it, its official :). Maybe I should use yahoo for mailing lists or something, but then, I don't check yahoo every 5 minutes. Thanks, Prajjwal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
