My results of trying 9.0 live evaluation
From: John Bowling (johnlb2002_TAKEOUT__at_cox.net)
Date: 12/03/03
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Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 19:51:43 -0700
I have a system with Win 2000 and a partially functional 8.2 version
installed that will not allow access to NTFS disks and cannot access either
of the lan ports (drivers not present or non functional).
The first time I booted from the 9.0 CD, it attempted to install my Epson
980 printer attached via usb using cups. It got stuck at about 23% of
saving the configuration for over 5 minutes. I rebooted with the cable
disconnected and it completed the boot operation reasonably fast. The only
configuration that can be set at boot time (perhaps only on the first boot)
is the language.
It creates a 100Meg file somewhere on the system that it uses for local
storage and ram disks. It was able to configure my 3Com lan port but not
the NVidia, even though it says during the boot up that it supports the
NVidia chip set (Force2 on an Asus A7N8X delux.
I copied login data from my 8.2 install, and I was able to log into the
evaluation disks default user (linux) with no password. It did not have any
access to yast2.
I logged out to change user, booting as root with my 8.2 password and yast2
was still not available on the desktop. To access it, I had to bring up the
console and type in yast2. It came up in graphics mode (it does look better
and seems to have more features). Going to the netcard setup, it did not
have the NVidia lan port
listed so I could not manually configure it.
It placed icons on the screen for all of my Windows partions but clicking on
any of them said that the NTFS kernal mode was not installed.
The information on NTFS Suse has in their FAQs is that they have included
the patches on all CD's since 5.1 in the first CD at /unsorted/patches in
file kernal-patches.tgz. I did not check the 9.0 live evaluation disk.
They also said that the patches for both NTFA and Fat32 were both early beta
and could not be trusted to retain FS integrity. They are not supported.
Fat32 access has been working well for several releases (I used it in 7.4),
so that information is very old, probably > 4 years.
The question I have, considering that the live evaluation is supposed to be
an real example of what 9.0 can do, is why do they display the windows
partitions icons and tell you you can't access them? I downloaded it to
find out just how well it works with NTFS and I still don't know. It will
not encourage me to spend the money for 9.0 given that there is no realistic
advantage to me over 8.2.
John
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