I was showing some co-workers how SuSE runs on my sunblade, and all the apps
it comes with on cds. They wanted to try it out.
Very nice to see them switch, and the ease of install. Lucky I had the
experience in a few areas that would give them problems.
Thought I would share my experience. (-:
1. Remove 2nd gfx card (creator) before install, only use the onboard video.
(Maybe sun will release a Creator driver with SunLinux OS)
2. When installing, first time the "Yast2" pauses for input, ctrl-alt-f2 and
turn off dma (hdparm -d0 /dev/hda, hdparm -d0 /dev/hdb), then ctrl-alt-f7
back.
3. When using expert to partition the drive, and it errors about not
mounting /dev/hda1 to /mnt/. switch back to console/f2 (ctrl-alt-f2) and
mount manually, (mount /dev/hda1 /mnt) and then go back to (ctrl-alt-f7) and
continue.
4. Selected Vesa monitor (1600x1200x85hz@24bit) and worked great. (I like
1280x1024, seems a little smoother)
5. Show them to "Yast2", don't touch the monitor settings, and your fine.
(Yast2 monitor settings seems to lock the sparc)
Been using SuSE 7.3 on my Sunblades, Ultra 10s and Sparc 5 & 20s. (Mostly
console on the 5 & 20s).
Only update I make is installing, GCC 3.1 (Thanks Thorsten Kukuk) and allot
of those compile problems are gone.
Thanks SuSE.
-Brook Harty
BTW, Anyone know if there are Mozilla 1.0 and Open Office SuSE sparc rpms
around?
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