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SUSE Linux Live Eval 9.0
just installed the SUSE 9.0 live evaluation version
downloaded ISO, burned to CD and booted from CD hardware is a spanking new dell precision 650, dual cpu, 1536 mb ram,etc loaded fine, except I'm now in a really fancy looking blue/grey welcome (in multiple languages) screen - what do I do next ? :) mouse moves around fine, nothing happens on keyboard or I do not know what I am supposed to press to make something happen help. please ? |
KDE 3.1 (blinking wrench) appears and after that the blue/grey welcome screen comes on and stays...all I can do is press the power off button
I wonder if it is because the system can not write the the NTFS volume on C: ? |
another odd item about the SUSE 9.0 Live Eval is that despite the SUSE site stating in the readme that a swapfile will not be created if you have enough ram, it asks me if I want a 100mb swapfile (and I have over 1500 mb ram on the system, dual 256mb modules and dual 512mb modules)
I wonder where it tries to store the swapfile? hmm....?? |
pressed F2 to see the bootup messages
at the very end it states "SuSE Linux 9.0 LiveEval has not been configured. Press Enter to reboot." so much for my live-eval...evaluation... |
I just tried out the 9.0 eval and I got as far as the login prompt. I tried to type in "root", but it just goes back to "login:" Unless there is some other login name I should be using, I just wasted an afternoon downloading this thing.
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Same experience
Well, so much for a "live" eval. 5 different machines, 5 losses.
1) IBM Thinkpad T40p : Got to a login prompt. Press anything you want, it just keeps asking...not even for a password. Just like the previous poster. 2) whitebox Celeron : Live eval fails 3) Acer Laptop : Login prompt, also nothing happens no matter what you type in 4) IBM Thinkpad 770X : Live eval fails 5) whitebox AMD 350 : Live eval fails. Come on, this is no way to leave a good impression! The 2 IBM laptops are just plain standard. The Whitebox AMD is also as standard as you can get! FIC motherboard, Matrox graphics card, AWE32 soundcard, 3Com 905 network card. By the way, I get a different experience each time. Some boot with the full graphical. Some start graphical and then go to text, some are sort of half-graphical, then proceed to list the boot output (no I didn't press F2), only on one machine did it ask me if I want to create a swap partition... Is this what I'm supposed to experience? :P |
SuSE is a nice distro. The live eval is very stupid relativly.
For those who still couldn't understand the idea - SuSE is free. They just hide this option. I mean it. Email me if you need more details about it. ronsholi at barak-online dot net |
Right. So how do I know if it will work on my hardware before I go messing around with my drive partitions and such?
There's no "hardware compatibility list" in clear site, and I thought the purpose of the live eval was to see if it would work on your system... |
Moving to Distributions Forum
As for SuSE being free, certainly. Head over to their FTP and do an FTP install... Cool |
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I'm sorry you had trouble with the SuSE Eval CD. I downloaded it fine on my G4 and burned the image with Toast 6. This has booted numerous Compaq Deskpros, D530s and a couple of ThinkPads with no trouble. I like the idea of using a Mac to enable PCs to run Linux! When I logged in after boot with the Eval CD I used the login name of Root but no password. This seems to work. Regards David |
So, I check the hardware list. Supposedly my T40p works. So I download the real deal and try it.
Now I'm off topic from the Live Eval, but what the heck. 1) The FTP install is nice. But why do I need to know the numeric IP address of the host? Can't it just grab it for me? This is stupid, if I weren't a tech. literate guy, I wouldn't know how to do that. Maybe they expect anyone doing the freebie FTP install is literate... 2) It over-write my MBR with GRUB. Did it ask me? I forget...I don't think so, but I could be mistaken. I wouldn't be so grumpy except that this screws up my multi-OS system so that OS/2 no longer boots. 3) I choose to change the resolution to 1400x1050 (native) during setup. Great, it proceeds. After all is done, it runs at some silly resolution like 1024x768. WTF?? And whenever I go to "preferences" to change it, (i) the display is messed up, and (ii) the changes never stick. It reverts back after I log out and in. Okay, so since I'm no dummy, I manage to figure out I have to run SAX2 to configure "manually" this thing. Again, WTF? I asked for 1400x1050, it gave it to me, and it runs fine during boot and setup, why is it borked when I log in and actually _use_ the system? Why is there no option in the preferences to run SAX2 so I can change my monitor/video characteristics? 4) Okay, so I also installed GNOME. How do I switch from KDE to GNOME? Again, stupid. I have a RedHat 7 system, I just choose on login which I want. Why SUSE give me the choice to install, but no obvious way to switch. Nice looking system. Setup relatively painless ... but I'm not impressed. It's not faster, it's not more stable. And the desktop GUI interface is the shits (not in appearance, in ease and power of use. Anyone who thinks GNOME or KDE is fabulous hasn't used a nice GUI before). Plus it took waaaay more disk space than my other OS, including apps and data. SUSE is still on my system,but dormant as I "format /newmbr" to recover the original MBR so I could boot again into WinXP or OS/2. I could see where this would come in handy for a "lock down" system or for users who use it only for limited/set number of tasks. |
It's not faster, it's not more stable.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Upgrade your kernel 2.6.x.... its a lot faster from what I hear, I am not sure about stability though. |
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