Think it was Suse 9.1. Installed on an Alienware laptop as well as my
Athlon XP PC and both were problematic. None of the distros worked on
the Alienware laptop though. They either wouldn't boot, load X or the
mouse and other hardware wouldn't function. But if I'm totally wrong
with Suse being pile of garbage, that makes me very happy. I'll have to
give them another go some time.
Eric
Charles Curley wrote:
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:41:40PM -0700, Eric Jensen wrote:
You can get ISO of the eval version there, but not the full. Only
option for that is the FTP install, which from what I remember wasn't
the smoothest process I've experienced with Linux. Especially if you
have a NIC that isn't all that supported and takes a bit of work to get
up and running. I even tried running a local FTP with the same
directory structure with no luck. Getting full non-eval ISOs for Suse
is not easy, I remember having to search all over for a torrent file.
From what I gather, this has been a huge negative for moving over to
Suse for a lot of people. Doing a several gig install over your
internet connection doesn't sit well with a lot of people. Installs can
take long enough as it is, especially if you are the type who like to do
the easy full install.
I thought about that. :-) I'm not wild about loosing my connection or
some such half way throught the installation. That's one reason I
prefer NFS installation: I've actually had to reboot my NFS server half
way through an installation of FC3. The installation picked right up
and went on without a hiccup.
I'm going to try hauling in the DVD iso and opening it as a loopback
device, and mounting that under my ftp tree. Then I'll see if the FTP
installation ISO can use my local server.
After I did get Suse installed, I was not impressed. It was pretty and
user friendly, but horribly unstable. Out of all the Distros I tried
over that week (Debian, Slackware, Fedora, Mandrake, and a few others I
forget) Suse was by far the most unstable.
Interesting. Which version of Suse? I had no problems installaing or
running 9.1 on my testbed (1.1 GHz Athlon, 120 MB main memory, 20 GB
HD.
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