I have been using RC1 from the day it was out, I have upgraded to KDM 10.3GM and right now I am going to clean install the new 10.3.001GM DVD I Dl today.

great riba tell us how it is!

hi guys,

Right now I have been setting up the new 10.3 GM on my comp. I have to check how it is working. The setup went fine. everything was recognized and no problems so far. I will be "playing" with the system tonight and if something goes wrong, I will tell you tomorrow.

Well thanks for the link, in the short time it was open i git the torrents for the i386 and the 64bit dvds

torrent link file

http://linuxtracker.org/download.php...x86_64.torrent

Yup.. i've got mine..

Hi ,

as I said, I installed (clean install) 10.3 GM. The installation went fine, but there are two problems I cant resolve.
1. Kontact, After installation the setup was OK, the Kmail too. Now I have to restart computer if I want to open it. After closing it is not possible to restart it again. I have to say that previous version of Kontact and Kmail is not working. It crashed (bug) and I got this SIGSEGV 11 signal. I have Kontact and Kmail/KDE4 installed.

2. Wireless rt2500pci is not working. I mean I can connect but I cant connect to internet. I will try to install a new driver from the web and see what happened. The rt2500pci driver worked in 10.3RC1.

Everything else is working

And there was something else when I start to install the OS. I got the error message that the installation was stopped due to the problem with mounting the NTFS windows/C. It can not be mounted because the Windows system was not shut down properly???? So I had to repair the MBR and after that, the installation went fine.

I would be careful about using kde4, it is not yet production ready and it has a lot of showstoppers.

what are showstoppers?

things that stop KDE4 to be shown

Showstopper bugs are typically bugs that keep you from using the system, or as they say in the entertainment industry "Stop the Show".

if it's a production daily machine.. Don't use 4 yet.. It's not ready.

Ben

I'm eager to try the new opensuse 10.3, but ran into a problem with MD5 checksums. It's something that seems to always occur when I try a new DVD install, and I begin to wonder if it's systemic for all linux distros. It happened before with Fedora 6, and 7, various Suse distros, and more. I download the 64 bit DVD iso, since the target PC is a new laptop, Dell Inspiron 1420 with Centrino Duo CPU. I did the download on an HP AMD and also burned the DVD there. When starting the installation on the new laptop, the media test phase complains about MD5 being wrong.
The funny part is that I also ran explicitly md5sum first on the down-loaded iso file, and then on the burned DVD, and it comes with exactly the MD5 code that I can find on the internet. Yet, the media check fails when trying it on my brand new laptop, and it fails with MD5 checksum error. Since this has worked before for Fedora 6 and 7, I tried the installation anyways, but that fails for openSuse 10.3 with a cryptic error that refers to a problem with accessing the CD. The thing is, I'm using a DVD, not a CD, and then it can't read it after being able to boot up the installation component? - This is odd. I wonder if someone else has seen a similar problem and might have found a solution.

Hey guys! I switched to SuSE 10.3 x64 from Ubuntu as my main system (for now) since it has the new Xen 3.1. SuSE 10.3 has been working great, although the default Nvidia driver was horrible. It shows up as "nv" in xorg.conf. I ended up using the new YaST 1-click install to install the new Nvidia drivers and it's been working great! This shows up as "nvidia" driver in xorg.conf and glxgears moves fast. I have an Nvidia 8600GTS video card.

I also used the 1-click to download and install Videolan player so that I don't have to worry about media codecs. The 1-click download worked flawlessly! I hope more sites support this.

One problem I have seen is that I can't put my computer in hibernate or sleep mode. It just locks the screen asking for my password. My computer doesn't physically do anything and it's still running. Very weird.

The other problem I am seeing is the Firefox 2.0.0.6 browser. I manually downloaded the 2.0.0.7 browser, but I could not get my Flash to work. And as we know, Adobe Flash x64 is NOT supported and will not install. So I have no idea how the SuSE team got the Flash plugin to work with 2.0.0.6. Firefox 2.0.0.7 won't recognize the flash player. Anyone know how to do this? I don't see a plugins folder in my .mozilla/firefox directory like I should.

Continuation of the problem:

At least I could now start on one installation, with new problems.

I gave up on the install DVD and downloaded the 1CD kde version of OpenSuse 10.3. This time I didn't have the MD5 problem but a different obstacle. I think it's name is Vista...

This PC has the "new" Vista system on it, pre-installed as purchased. When I bought it, the first thing I did was to resize the base partition in which the windows OS is located. That's easily done in Vista, fortunately. Now there are 83 GB for vista and 10Gb for a restore partition, and there should be about 70.5 GB for Linux (It's an about 160 GB disk).

I thought Suse installer would be smart enough by now, but am pretty disappointed: I went back and forth through the various possibilities, expert and non-expert, but nothing seems to be acceptable according to error messages I'm getting. The only thing it can propose as an "acceptable" partition is to wipe everything out and use it for linux. It wants to declare 143 GB as Linux LVM. It looks pretty much like it wants to just fork everything over to linux, which is not my intention at all.

The most bizzare part of this is that no one can see the entire hard disk anymore: It was initially 150 or 160 GB, then I resized the vista partition to 83.5 and leaving the rest free. Vista doesn't know anything about the actual disk size now, and Suse's installer also doesn't seem to know: It sees a 149 GB disk but not the free space. When I try to create a partition it says there's no space for it. Maybe I've had it for today.

Any pointers? - Thanks

I do not know what your problem is. I had vista installed and there was no problem to install SUSE. I just live SUSE to install and I was newer playing with resizing or whatewer it is you are doing. SUSE knows better what it is to be done, believe me. I have now WinsXP Pro and SUSE 10.3 and I have been installing and reinstalling my system so many times and never ever I was wrong. I was when I try to fiddle with the partitioning myself.