[ale] more on SuSE 8.1

[Ray Knight]

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 15:37, Geoffrey wrote:
> So, for the past couple of days, Iv'e been upgrading my box from 
> Mandrake to SuSE 8.1  SuSE squirted a few problem out, but all in all, 
> it was quite uneventful.
> 
<SNIP> 
> As for my SuSE problems, I really only had one issue.  Although it 
> picked up my scanner on install, I couldn't get the thing to respond. 
> Once I started checking out the sane config files I noted that YAST had 
> set up my scanner as scsi, when it is usb.  Changing file fixed this one 
> and only problem I had.
> 
> By the way, I now others had problems with doing a SuSE 8.1 install when 
> trying to create some custom partitions.  I did not have this same 
> problem, so I'm wondering if SuSE professional might be doing something 
> a bit different then SuSE personal.
> 
> -- 

I have SuSE 8.1 Professional (the store did not have personal).  I was
running SuSE 8.0 (originally SuSE 5.x where x was > 1 but I can't
remember exactly and upgraded every 2 or 3 releases).  The SuSE 8.1
upgrade refused to install.  I posted earlier about the problem,
multiple failures when unpacking the rpms.  I tried another CD-ROM
drive, I tested the memory, I turned off IDE DMA, nothing worked.  Box
was a 266 MHz AMD K-6, with a 17GB drive a CD and a CD-R/W (all IDE),
256 MB RAM and a Matrox G200 video, and 3 Com 3c905b Ethernet.  I bought
a used Compaq Deskpro with a 300 Mhz Pentium II.  Moved the hard drive
and CD-R/W, memory, video, Ethernet and 128 MB DIMM to the Compaq (for a
total of 256 MB Ram) and SuSE installed with no problems).  Put the
smaller disk from the Compaq into the AMD box and RedHat 7.3 installed
with no problems.  I guess SuSE 8.1 doesn't like AMD K6 processors.  

Ray



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