![]() ![]() For commercial and possibly educational (school) purposes i think u need to buy additional sets. Assuming it’s used for home, and non-commercial purposes. From reading a post on an SuSE mailing list, it seems that i can buy SuSE Pro and then install, make copies of the CDs, and give my original set away to someone. You can get isos using or searching Asian ftp sites. I know having YAST in there complicates things. Well i’m not real familiar with the details of the GPL and the SuSE license. My conclusion so far: slick procedures and hyped distributions is something I’m going to stay away from, for the time being. Or, incidently, I did try KNOPPIX, and it came up just fine, but I guess I’m going to stick around with RH 9.0 for the time being, and may be next spring try Fedora Core 2 (with 2.6). ![]() The next thing I did was installed NVIDIA driver, and added NTFS support. Eventually, I’ve finished the installation, it rebooted and – low and behold – came up. Well, I said, I KNOW BETTER (since it’s a brand new harddrive I got, and installed WinXP on it already), repeated procedure, this time skipped the option of checking the bad sectors. At some point when it started formatting partition, I’ve selected the option of checking for bad sectors – MY MISTAKE! it has reported that my hard drive has lots of bad sectors, and it doesn’t recommend to continue installation – and aborted the whole procedure. The installation GUI was UGLY AS A HELL, but I did manage to navigate through it. After trying several times, I gave up on Mandrake as well.įinally, I’ve decided to try Red Hat 9.0 which is available from our school download server. On booting LInux, it got stucked while ‘testing for new hardware’. I’ve downloaded ISO images, went through installation without any problems. There should be an option of some low-level keyboard-navigation based installation procedure. Certainly they have very nice installation GUI, but if something goes wrong, you’re screwed up. Doesn’t matter, still I’ve lost my mouse and couldn’t finish the installation.Īt this point I’ve decided I’m pretty much done with SUSE. Next I repeated the same procedure again, but this time when it has prompted me to load USB drivers, I said “NO”. I’ve tried to navigate with keyboard to continue installation, but clearly the whole installation GUI is designed with mouse in mind. I’ve clicked on OK, and next I’ve lost my mouse (which is a touch pad type). When it has identified that I have USB interfaces it has prompted me for OK to load USB. ![]() After I’ve loaded the proper driver, and plugged all the necessary network parameters, it has found the server, downloaded files, and started installation.Īt some point it has started identifying different devices and loading the drivers, every time I have to confirm the action or say DO NOT. Fortunately - because I did have WinXP installed – I rebooted XP, went to the hardware browser and learned that I have Intel Pro/100.īack to the SUSE. So I had to manually pick up the appropriate module. The first suprprise was that the install procedure couldn’t identify my network card, just couldn’t find it. ![]() Downloaded and burned bootstrap ISO image and started installation. So I’ve pocked around and found fairly fast server. The disk was already partitioned, the 1st partition (NTFS) contained Windows XP, the rest was unformatted.īecause I’ve heard a lot about SUSE 9.0 release and how great they support the laptops I’ve decided to give it a shot, but because I wasn’t sure whether it would work or not, I’ve decided to try with remote install first, and if I like it – go ahead and purchase the PRO version. About a couple weeks ago I’ve decided to do my first ever Linux install, on Toshiba s5205-503. ![]()
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