Re: AMD 64 SuSE 10 DVD install problems - few answers -

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John Bowling wrote:

> I have been using SuSE since 6.4 and have not run into these problems.
> The system is an AMD 64, Asus K8B-MX motherboard, 256M RAM, new DVD
> reader, new 300G HD.
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> There are several areas that SuSE MUST, MUST, MUST, and again MUST!!!!
> fix:
>
> 1) Set the time AFTER all, and I absolutely DO mean ALL, other
> configuration data is entered!

===> HERE

Set NTP services, then the time should be ok.
Select a server fairly close.

YAST-> Networks services-> NTP Client

>
> 2) Allow a retry when the partitioning fails.

Here you may have a point: I really hate install utilities (SUSE &
Fedora) bailing out at the first error!

Note that using Knoppix (CD or DVD Linux), you can easily fix
partitioning problems, using all the classic utilities, including QYPARTED
(nice easy to use GUI).
But I agree, this should be doable more simply.

>
> 3) Allow a save (somewhere, even to a ramdisk) of the configuration data
> so that we can restore it!

==> This is a good idea, but if installer does bail out at the first error,
the need is not so compelling.
Note that RedHat (Fedora) has such a feature, very convenient if you wnat
to just duplicate a "standard" install config on more than one PC.

For this very reason, I would like to see a standard (and good) install
interface and script for all Linuxes, even if "the inner stuff" differs.
But it seems that distro vendors all reinvent the wheel and attempt
product differentiation on the install.
I am not sure anyone really win...

>
> 4) Fix the D#*M insistance on additions from a CD. Has that been on all
> 64 bit DVD versions?

==> This may be a bug, but such a "big bug" would have attracted the
attention of lots of users!
You may want to verify if you did not do something a bit funny there.
I suggest that the installer attempt to read the first CD or DVD, so using
the lowest IDE / master for the DVD you may resolve the problem quite
simply. If the CD and the DVD are on the same IDE channel, the set DVD as
master, CD as slave.

If Yast is functionall set installation source as something like /dev/hdc it
may be set by default as /dev/hdb or something like this.




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