Re: SuSe 9.1 installation

From: AC (aec$news_at_candt.demon.co.uk)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 06:22:19 +0100

In article <6b02976f.0405311941.37aabcf7@posting.google.com>, Richard
Gagnon <gagnonrchrd@netscape.net> writes

>I am trying to start using Linux
I am almost at the same stage

(also, are you aware of the alt.os.linux.suse newsgroup? I am using it a
lot just now, see you there...)

> as I do not want to go to XP in my
>Windows box. I have just received the two cd set and I decided to
>follow instructions. Cd 1 only came up with a Live Cd option. After
>reading ahead a few pages I saw something about using Cd 2 and that
>came up with installation options. I chose the default installation
>option. Everything was going ok when the installation tried to
>configure the network and the installation hung up at Running Internet
>Connection Test. I saw something like Illegal Vendor
>eth-id-07:00:07:00:07:00 DHCP. I had to push the reset button on the
>front of the computer.
>When I tried the live cd option, the network worked fine and I was on
>the internet in about 5 minutes.

(A good sign)

> I find this rather strange.
>When the system is booting from the hd I see something like:
>Linksys ethernet network everywhere fast NC100 Rev. 11
>I also saw IP address 127.00.1/8 about the same time.

This is an internal value, and is not facing the network (afaik, am
newb)

>The computer is a Lindows configured computer I bought from WalMart
>and Mepis and Sun Java Desktop all configure the network ok. The
>network is on the mobo. The hd I am using is brand new with nothing on
>it. No other hd or os is connected. I do not like Lindows, Mepis and
>Sun Java do not see the firewire external hd so I am trying SuSe. I am
>only a W98 user and I need a windows type of environment as I am not
>into trying to configure the software

suse is probably the best for this from what I have heard (?)

>. Some people expect me to suffer
>through configuring like they did but this is not what I have been
>told about Linux. Linux is supposed to be a great os

It is. However, keep in mind that the win experience is good at getting
you to believe that you do not have to do anything - it will do it for
you, often without telling you enough, or at all. This is not always an
advantage. So some level of user action is worth expecting. One reason
why committed linux users sometimes seem less sympathetic with your
plight may be that they find linux so worth while that they have
forgotten the windows-to-linux culture shock.

>. I am trying to
>find a os that will recognize everything as if I was trying to
>configure a computer with W98, i.e. fairly automatic

You might find this to be a little optimistic generally (yet) with
linux, although suse 9.1 actually did what you describe - automatic - on
a PII and a PIII I have tried installing. as a total newb I was
reassured. As you found, live CD is internet easy, although a full
installation into a (home) network took me into the samba functions and
sometimes 'terminal' use. no big deal, but a world away from the cushion
under the windowbox. btw 9.1 is better than 9.0 - things are moving
forward. 

-- 
AC
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