Re: Beagle crap !

After serious contemplation, on or about Tuesday 20 March 2007 12:53 pm
Paul J Gans perhaps from gans@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Darrell Stec <darrell_stec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In the meantime I am busy trying to install openSuse 10.2 on an older
PIII 500MhZ computer with 384MB of ram via a online installation. It
is quite a learning system and I'm on my 8th attempt. Primarily
things started going downhill at the very beginning when the kernel
did not
recognize my internet adapter. (It is on the list but not listed in
the network adapter modules). Getting past that the installation did
not like my partitioning. I think I got passed that and it is
downloading files. Fun, Fun, fun and I should be updating the data in
kMyMoney so I can get on with my taxes.

I have 10.0 installed on a venerable Pentium machine running
at 350 Mhz with 256 MB of memory. Runs just fine. In fact,
I'm using it right now to post this.

I tried 10.2 on it but it gave me troubles. I didn't try too
hard though.


After about 24 hours of straight work (mostly waiting for downloads to
do its thing) I finally got openSuse 10.2 up and running. And it is
surprisingly fast, in fact faster than the Win98SE installation. But
it was a struggle. One thing that caused problems with SAX2 working
was that there was a bad RAM stick (and Win98SE didn't seem to notice
although some things acted a little quirky). The installation kept
hanging at various points (and I mean hours at a time) and had to be
restarted. When it finally finished it never asked for a root password
nor a user and password plus I had to run the program to fix the files
and journal. Using Rescue mode I entered the information necessary
(thank goodness I have this main computer to look up things on the
Internet [most of it came from alt.os.linux.suse]) and when I rebooted
it started the installation process all over again, but this time in
Graphics mode. After that, everything worked great and continues to do
so.

One strange thing was that in text mode none of the keyboards I used
worked properly. [Repairing computers, I have many of them available.)
Sometimes a key press produced no output and other times it printed 5
of that letter. That was true even with the bad RAM stick removed.

Setting up Samba was a challenge too. I still have to go back to
Suse-Win98SE but did get Linux-Linux working. Most of that was because
I forgot what I did for previous installations and computers. I just
don't install that many mixed systems/networks but mostly setup dual
boot computers. A few customers wanted Windows completely wiped off
their hard drive.

--
Later,
Darrell Stec darstec@xxxxxxxxxx

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