[Fwd: Re: [ale] SuSE 81 review, kinda...]

[Chris Farris]

Another annoyance of SuSE 8.1 - Its installer doesn't handle non
standard partition tables. I made some changes in Partition Magic and
nothing I could do would get the installer to read my partition table.
fdisk -l /dev/hda worked fine.

Caveat Emptor

Chris

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:49, Ray Knight wrote:
> Need to remember to respond from the correct account.
> 
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> From: Ray Knight <audilvr at speakeasy.org>
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] SuSE 81 review, kinda...
> Date: 23 Jan 2003 19:21:11 -0500
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 10:47, Geoffrey wrote:
> > I've got to say, I've been playing with SuSE 8.1 lately.  It is quite 
> > sweet.  I picked up the Personal version and installed it on 5 machines. 
> >   I've since picked up the Professional and am currently installing it 
> > on another.  So far it's been pretty flawless.  Two problems I have run 
> > into:
> > 
> > 1. When installing on a box with an older trident card, I could never 
> > get X to work.  This happened with Mandrake 9.0 as well.  Doing a bit of 
> > research, I found a link off the XFree86 site referencing another driver 
> > and noting that xfree 4.2 has problems with some trident chipsets.  That 
> > driver works like a charm on two different trident cards I previously 
> > could not get working.
> > 
> > 2.  When installing on a box with an S3 trio3d card, SuSE 8.1 Personal 
> > set the driver to "Vesa".  I don't know if that was intentional but 
> > again, reviewing the XFree docs, they say that chip requires the S3virge 
> > driver. Once I made this change, that box is working like a charm.
> > 
> > Waiting to see if my IEEE-1394 (firewire) card is recognized. ;)
> > 
> > -- 
> > Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> > 
> > The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
> > Think about it...
> > 
> I bought SuSE 8.1 Professional this past weekend to update a system
> running 8.0.  It originally had SuSE 7.1 and was updated to 7.3 and then
> 8.0   The 8.0 to 8.1 update failed with numerous (>80) rpms failing to
> install.  The log doesn't give any details, just says failed, followed
> by a blank line.  So I tried doing a fresh install, just saving my /home
> directory which has it's own partition.  Still have rpms that fail to
> install with no details in the log.  So I think perhaps my CDROM drive
> is announcing imminent failure.  Tried 2 other CDROM drives with
> identical results.  Trying to install some of the failed rpms from the
> command line results in:  Segmentation fault.  I ran the memory tester
> overnight with no failures.  Anyone have a clue what I should try next? 
> Do I perhaps have defective CDROM disks?
> 
> Ray
> 

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