[wplug] Re: wplug Vol 2, Issue 16, Message 14, Q: Whichdistribution to start with?

[Wise, Jeremey]

My first (of four) installs was the 20MB ISO download installer. After
locating a local server and recording IP / Host info to put into the
installer it went ok. Issue with that is the YAST update program keep
barking about a missing update server no matter what server/path I gave
it. Gave up on that and did update manually from ftp://SuSE.org site
(very slow).

Second and all installs sense then have been from media (purchased from
online store which took four weeks to be delivered :>( It seems to go
very well. Asks for the DVD a lot if you try and add packages but I
ignore and suck down from site and to rpm install manually. 

NIC worked fine for me with 2.4 base kernel (e100) but when I installed
the 2.6.4 rpm from the SuSE site it would not load automatically (hence
my custom kernel build of 2.6.5 from kernel.org).



Jeremey Wise 

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+jeremey.wise=agilysys.com at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+jeremey.wise=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
techmike
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 2:14 PM
To: General user list
Subject: RE: [wplug] Re: wplug Vol 2, Issue 16, Message 14, Q:
Whichdistribution to start with?

Just out of curiosity how did you install SuSE 9.0?  I tried it the
other 
night using the 20mb ISO image..  The installer loaded fine, but it kept

trying to locate CD #1.

So I tried the FTP method, but didnt have any luck loading the module
for 
my NIC..  

I was impressed with the liveeval of it though.

-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: "Wise, Jeremey" <jeremey.wise at agilysys.com>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 13:56:58 -0400
Subject: RE: [wplug] Re: wplug Vol 2, Issue 16, Message 14, Q: Which 
distribution to start with?

> I am using SuSE 9.0. As a desktop distro it is not the most user
> friendly. It is missing many of the conveniences I found helpful in
> RedHat (previous distro). It is more graphically focused and wants all
> things done in YAST (their configuration tool). KDE is defiantly their
> preferred X focus. I have grown to love Konqueror in it flexibility
but
> it has a few nasty bugs (displaying acrobat files). It is also has
> issues with my laptop on the video (ATI Rage Mobility) which took a
2.6
> kernel custom build to fix. I would recommend adding several post
> install packages to make it functional as a desktop distro (acrobat,
> sun-java, Mozilla, locate, tree, etc...).
> 
>  
> 
> My $.02
> 
>  
> 
> Jeremey Wise 
> 
>   _____  
> 
> From: wplug-bounces+jeremey.wise=agilysys.com at wplug.org
> [mailto:wplug-bounces+jeremey.wise=agilysys.com at wplug.org] On Behalf
Of
> Ted Fisher
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 11:30 PM
> To: wplug at wplug.org
> Subject: [wplug] Re: wplug Vol 2, Issue 16, Message 14,Q: Which
> distribution to start with?
> 
>  
> 
> My sincere thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to my "which
> distribution to start with" question.  I appreciate the courtesy.
Does
> anyone here have any hands-on experience with the SUSE distribution?
> 
>  
> 
> Ted
> 
> 

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